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SUBMITTER: Santos N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC85332 | biostudies-literature | 1999 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Santos N N Lima R C RC Nozawa C M CM Linhares R E RE Gouvea V V
Journal of clinical microbiology 19990801 8
Rotavirus type G5 is a primarily porcine pathogen that has caused frequent and widespread diarrhea in children in Brazil and in piglets elsewhere. Initial results on the rotavirus types circulating in diarrheic piglets in Brazil disclosed a high diversity of strains with distinct G types including G1, G4, G5, and G9 and the novelty of P[8], the predominant human P specificity type. Those results add strong evidence for the emergence of new strains through natural reassortment between rotaviruses ...[more]