Rotaviruses belonging to the AU-1 genogroup recovered from Israeli infants with diarrhea.
The genetic and antigenic diversity of group A rotaviruses recovered from Israeli infants has been expanded recently by the inclusion of three unusual human rotavirus strains. Two rotavirus strains (Ro-5829 and Ro-5960) were shown to be the first viruses outside Japan that resembled the AU-1 genogroup of feline like human rotaviruses in their overall genomic constellation and in the restriction pattern of their polymerase chain reaction amplified gene 4 following digestion with EcoRI. Another strain (Ro-5193) turned out to be an intergenogroup reassortant between viruses belonging to the AU-1 and the bovine genogroups and resembled in that respect similar viruses isolated from infants in Italy.
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Central Virology Laboratory, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel.
Iizuka
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Silberstein
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Mendelson
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Nakagomi
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D003967:Diarrhea / Q000821:virology*; D016679:Genome, Viral; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007557:Israel; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D015347:RNA Probes; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000235:genetics*; D016865:Reassortant Viruses / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D012401:Rotavirus / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D012400:Rotavirus Infections / Q000821:virology*; D012703:Serotyping
D015347:RNA Probes; D012367:RNA, Viral