Isolation from diarrheal and asymptomatic kittens of three rotavirus strains that belong to the AU-1 genogroup of human rotaviruses.
A survey of 143 stool specimens collected during a 17-month period in Japan from diarrheal and asymptomatic kittens identified three rotavirus strains that were similar in their genomic RNA constellation to human rotavirus AU-1 (G3P3[9]), lending strong support to the view that rotaviruses belonging to the same genogroup are circulating in both the human and the feline population.
Mochizuki
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Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology, Kyoritsu Shoji Co., Tokyo, Japan.
Nakagomi
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Nakagomi
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D000818:Animals; D002415:Cats; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000821:virology*; D016679:Genome, Viral; D006801:Humans; D012401:Rotavirus / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D012400:Rotavirus Infections / Q000821:virology*