| Literature DB >> 16732476 |
Vici Varghese1, Souvik Ghosh, Soma Das, Sujit Kumar Bhattacharya, Triveni Krishnan, Parimal Karmakar, Nobumichi Kobayashi, Trailokya Nath Naik.
Abstract
Long RNA electropherotype rotavirus strains with subgroup I specificity predominated the infantile gastroenteritis outbreak in Manipur, India, in 1987-88. One such strain (RMC321) was found to possess porcine characteristics in 7 out of 8 genes sequenced. Partial characterization of its remaining VP1, VP2 and VP3 genes along with a porcine rotavirus strain (HP140) uncovered their close genetic relation to porcine strains. VP7 was the only gene segment of this strain with significant genetic identity to human strains. This indicates that a rotavirus reassortant strain with most of its genetic material derived from a porcine strain may cause symptomatic infection in a human host.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 16732476 DOI: 10.1007/s11262-005-6908-y
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Virus Genes ISSN: 0920-8569 Impact factor: 2.332