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Detection of group B rotavirus in an adult with acute gastroenteritis in Yangon, Myanmar.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Nov 2009
Aung Tin Sabai, Kobayashi Nobumichi, Nagashima Shigeo, Ghosh Souvik, Aung Meiji Soe, Oo Khin Yi, Win Ne
Abstract excerpt
In Yangon, Myanmar, a human group B rotavirus was first detected in 2007 in a stool specimen from a sporadic case of acute gastroenteritis in an adult. The strain was designated as MMR-B1. The full-length sequences of the MMR-B1 genes encoding VP7, VP4 (VP5* and VP8*), VP6, and NSP4 were determined for genetic characterization. These four MMR-B1 genes showed considerable higher sequence identities (97.2-98.4%) to...
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