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SUBMITTER: Duan ZJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1865876 | biostudies-literature | 2007 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of clinical microbiology 20070214 5
During a rotavirus surveillance conducted in Lulong County, Hebei Province, China, a total of 331 stool specimens collected in 2003 from children under 5 years old with diarrhea were screened. We identified a novel group A human rotavirus of genotype G5P[6]. Phylogenetic analysis confirmed that the VP7 protein of this newly identified strain, LL36755, was closely related to those of the G5 strains. As such, it has 95.4% homology with its counterparts in the porcine G5 strains C134 and CC117 at t ...[more]