Presence of Two Distinct Types of Rotavirus in Infants and Young Children Hospitalized with Acute Gastroenteritis in Mexico City, 1977
- 1 April 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 139 (4), 474-477
- https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/139.4.474
Abstract
Between December 1976 and January 1978. infection with rotavirus was detected by electron microscopy in 61 (25%) of 242 infants and young children hospitalized with acute gastroenteritis at two hospitals in Mexico City. This type of infection was more frequent in autumn than in winter. The presence of virus could also be detected by the electrophoretic pattern of its segmented, double-stranded ribonucleic acid (RNA) in stool samples taken from 52 (85%) of the 61 patients who were shown by electron microscopic examination to excrete rotavirus. Two distinct patterns, previously called 2s and 21, were observed, which were distinguishable by the relative migration of the second, l Oth, and l l th viral RNA segments in gel electrophoresis; the 21 pattern was observed much more frequently than was the 2s pattern.Keywords
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