Article
VP7 gene polymorphism of serotype G9 rotavirus strains and its impact on G genotype determination by PCR.
Virus research - 1 Dec 2002
Santos Norma, Volotão Eduardo M, Soares Caroline C, Albuquerque Maria Carolina M, da Silva Fabiano M, Chizhikov Vladimir, Hoshino Yasutaka
Abstract excerpt
Rotaviruses are the single most important etiologic agents of severe diarrhea of infants and young children worldwide. Surveillance of rotavirus serotypes/genotypes (both VP7[G] and VP4[P]) is in progress globally in which polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has been the assay of choice. We investigated polymorphism of the VP7 gene of serotype G9 rotavirus strains and its impact on the determination of VP7 gene...
Topics
- Antigens, Viral
- Brazil
- Capsid Proteins
- Child, Preschool
- DNA Primers
- Gastroenteritis
- Genotype
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Neutralization Tests
- Phylogeny
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Rotavirus