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. 2005 Mar;43(3):1374-6.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.43.3.1374-1376.2005.

Serotype G9 rotavirus infections in adults in Sweden

Elba Rubilar-Abreu  1 , Kjell-Olof Hedlund, Lennart Svensson, Christian Mittelholzer
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Serotype G9 rotavirus infections in adults in Sweden

Elba Rubilar-Abreu et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2005 Mar.

Abstract

Rotavirus is a major cause of acute gastroenteritis. By examining 1,517 stool samples collected in 2001 and 2002 from Swedish adults with acute diarrhea, rotavirus was found in 3.2%, with the emerging G9P[8] serotype being the one most commonly identified (42.9%). This is the first documentation of G9 infections in adults in Europe.

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FIG. 1.
Phylogenetic tree of G9 rotaviruses. Shown is a comparison of the complete coding sequences of the VP7 gene of 23 Swedish strains and three reference strains (AU32, accession number AB045372; 116E, accession number L14072; and BD524, accession number AJ250543) by the ClustalW algorithm of the MegAlign program in the DNASTAR software package (Madison, Wis.).
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