Waterborne outbreak of rotavirus diarrhoea in adults in China caused by a novel rotavirus.
During two epidemics of acute diarrhoea in China in late 1982/early 1983, more than 12 000 adults in two coal mining districts were affected. The virus isolated from stool samples resembled a rotavirus morphologically. Antigenically it lacked the group antigen shared by known rotaviruses. Like other rotaviruses it had a double-stranded RNA with 11 discrete segments, but the pattern of migration of the segments on polyacrylamide electrophoresis differed from those of other rotaviruses.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000956:Antigens, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D002648:Child; D002681:China; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D012401:Rotavirus / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D012400:Rotavirus Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000635:transmission; D014771:Virion / Q000648:ultrastructure; D014871:Water Microbiology
D000956:Antigens, Viral; D012367:RNA, Viral