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Detection of the emerging rotavirus G9 serotype at high frequency in Italy
Vito Martella1, Valentina Terio, Giuseppe Del Gaudio
1Department of Animal Health and Well-Being, University of Bari, Bari, Italy. v.martella@veterinaria.uniba.it
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|August 9, 2003
Abstract:
Group A human rotavirus strains belonging to the unusual serotype G9 were detected at high frequency in stool specimens from infected children with acute diarrhea in Bari, Italy, during a 15-month survey from March 2001 to June 2002. This may signify a local reemergence of the G9 rotaviruses detected in Italy in the early and mid-1990s or may be related to the global emergence of G9 rotaviruses in recent years.