| Literature DB >> 19916043 |
Marcelo Takahiro Mitui1, Gulendam Bozdayi2, Buket Dalgic3, Ilknur Bostanci4, Akira Nishizono1, Kamruddin Ahmed5.
Abstract
The present study was done to find out the prevalence of group B and C rotavirus infections in children with diarrhea presented at two major hospitals in Ankara, Turkey. Group B rotavirus was not found in any samples. One of 122 samples was positive for group C rotavirus. Phylogenetic analysis of genes for nonstructural protein NSP4, and structural proteins VP4, VP6, and VP7 confirmed the human origin of this strain. Similar to other human group C rotaviruses, one N-glycosylation site was predicted at amino acid residue 67 on the VP7 of strain GUP188. The genes of strain GUP188 were closely related to those of human group C rotavirus strain from the UK (Bristol) for NSP4, China (208 and Wu82) for VP4 and VP6, and from Colombia (Javeriana) for VP7, indicating that the Turkish group C rotavirus was unique and can serve as an additional reference strain for the molecular epidemiology of group C rotaviruses.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID： 19916043 DOI： 10.1007/s11262-009-0420-8
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Virus Genes ISSN： 0920-8569 Impact factor: 2.332