Emergence of novel human group A rotavirus G12 strains in India.

ABSTRACT: Three rare human G12 strains were detected from diarrheic clinical samples of children (<8 months of age) in Calcutta during a routine surveillance study of rotaviral diarrhea in India. The VP7 genes of G12 strains and their products showed maximum homology (97 to 99% at the nucleotide level and 98% at the amino acid level, respectively) with those of two recently reported G12 strains (from the United States and Thailand) but lesser homology with those of prototype G12 strain L26.

SUBMITTER: Das S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC156500 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature