title: A food-borne outbreak of gastroenteritis due to genotype G1P[8] rotavirus among adolescents in Japan.
abstract: Six high school students in Tochigi prefecture, Japan, developed gastroenteritis after eating at a pork cutlet shop. Molecular epidemiologic analyses showed that the causative agent was genotype G1P[8] rotavirus (RV), this being detected in stool samples from both the patients and the asymptomatic food handlers. The detected RV strains were closely related genetically. The only uncooked food that all victims had eaten was raw sliced cabbage. These findings results suggest that uncooked foods contaminated with RV may be sources of infectious gastroenteritis in adolescents.
authors.affiliation: Tochigi Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Science, Tochigi, 329-1196.
authors.forename: Fuminori
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mizukoshi
authors.forename: Makoto
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kuroda
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tsukagoshi
authors.forename: Tsuyoshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sekizuka
authors.forename: Keiji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Funatogawa
authors.forename: Yukio
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Morita
authors.forename: Masahiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Noda
authors.forename: Kazuhiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Katayama
authors.forename: Hirokazu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kimura
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005243:Feces / Q000821:virology; D005511:Food Handling; D005517:Foodborne Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005759:Gastroenteritis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D017720:Molecular Epidemiology; D058889:Molecular Typing; D012401:Rotavirus / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D012400:Rotavirus Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012574:Schools; D013334:Students
keywords: adults; gastroenteritis; rotavirus; salad