Detection of a porcine-like rotavirus in a child with enteritis in Italy.
During a 1-year rotavirus surveillance of children hospitalized with acute gastroenteritis in Brescia Hospital, Italy, a chimerical rotavirus strain, G3P[6], was detected, displaying the VP7 and VP4 genes of porcine origin and the NSP4 and VP6 genes of human origin. The reassortant nature of the virus rules out a direct zoonotic event.
Martella
Vito
V
Department of Public Health and Animal Sciences, University of Bari, Valenzano, Bari, Italy. v.martella@veterinaria.uniba.it
Colombrita
Domenico
D
Lorusso
Eleonora
E
Draghin
Emanuele
E
Fiorentini
Simona
S
De Grazia
Simona
S
Bányai
Kristián
K
Ciarlet
Max
M
Caruso
Arnaldo
A
Buonavoglia
Canio
C
D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004751:Enteritis / Q000821:virology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007558:Italy; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000235:genetics; D011995:Recombination, Genetic; D012401:Rotavirus / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D012400:Rotavirus Infections / Q000821:virology*; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D017361:Viral Nonstructural Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D015678:Viral Structural Proteins / Q000235:genetics
D012367:RNA, Viral; D017361:Viral Nonstructural Proteins; D015678:Viral Structural Proteins