Detection of a porcine-like rotavirus in a child with enteritis in Italy
- Authors: MARTELLA V; COLOMBRITA D; LORUSSO E; DRAGHIN E; FIORENTINI S; DE GRAZIA S; BÁNYAI K; CIARLET M; CARUSO A; BUONAVOGLIA C
- Publication year: 2008
- Type: Articolo in rivista (Articolo in rivista)
- Key words: Rotavirus
- OA Link: http://hdl.handle.net/10447/36489
Abstract
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.