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Predominance of rotavirus genotype G9 during the 1999, 2000, and 2002 seasons among hospitalized children in the city of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil: implications for future vaccine strategies.

Two hundred eight of 648 (32%) diarrheal stool samples collected from hospitalized children under 5 years of age during a 3-year period (1999, 2000, and 2002) in the city of Salvador, in the state of Bahia, Brazil, were rotavirus positive. One hundred sixty-four of 208 (78.8%) rotavirus-positive samples had genotype G9 specificity, predominantly in association with P[8]. Other specificities detected were G1 (12.0%) and G4 (1.4%). Viruses with G2, G3, or P[4] specificity were not detected. Rotavirus genotype G9 predominated during each of the three seasons studied; it represented 89.2% of rotavirus strains detected in 1999, 85.3% in 2000, and 74.5% in 2002. G1 viruses (the globally most common G type) have a unique epidemiological characteristic of maintaining predominance during multiple consecutive rotavirus seasons. We have shown in this study for the first time that the G9 viruses also have a similar epidemiological characteristic, albeit for a shorter period of surveillance. The next generation of rotavirus vaccines will need to provide adequate protection against disease caused by G9 viruses.[1]

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  1. Predominance of rotavirus genotype G9 during the 1999, 2000, and 2002 seasons among hospitalized children in the city of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil: implications for future vaccine strategies. Santos, N., Volotão, E.M., Soares, C.C., Campos, G.S., Sardi, S.I., Hoshino, Y. J. Clin. Microbiol. (2005)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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