Detection of a porcine-like rotavirus in a child with enteritis in Italy.

ABSTRACT: During a 1-year rotavirus surveillance of children hospitalized with acute gastroenteritis in Brescia Hospital, Italy, a chimerical rotavirus strain, G3P[6], was detected, displaying the VP7 and VP4 genes of porcine origin and the NSP4 and VP6 genes of human origin. The reassortant nature of the virus rules out a direct zoonotic event.

SUBMITTER: Martella V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2566083 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature