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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, August 1999, p. 2734-2736, Vol. 37, No. 8
Departamento de Virologia,
Received 1 February 1999/Accepted 19 April 1999
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 of human and porcine origins.
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Detection of Porcine Rotavirus Type G9 and of a Mixture of Types
G1 and G5 Associated with Wa-Like VP4 Specificity: Evidence for
Natural Human-Porcine Genetic Reassortment
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Virologia, Instituto de Microbiologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de
Janeiro, Cidade Universitária-CCS-Bl I, Ilha do Fundão,
P.O. Box 68040, Rio de Janeiro-RJ, 21941-590, Brazil. Phone: 55 21-260-9311. Fax: 55 21-560-8344. E-mail:
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