Detection of a human rotavirus with G12 and P[9] specificity in Thailand

J Clin Microbiol. 2002 Apr;40(4):1390-4. doi: 10.1128/JCM.40.4.1390-1394.2002.

Abstract

G12 rotavirus has not been detected anywhere in the world since the first detection of a human strain, L26 (G12, P1B[4]), in the Philippines in 1990. In this study, we isolated a human rotavirus (strain T152) with a VP7 of G12 specificity from the stool of an 11-month-old diarrheic patient in Thailand. The strain T152 exhibited a long RNA pattern and subgroup I specificity. In the comparison of the nucleotide and amino acid sequences of the VP7 gene of strain T152 with those of rotaviruses with different G type specificities, strain T152 showed the highest identity, 90.9 and 93.9%, respectively, to G12 prototype strain L26. In contrast, the VP4 gene of strain T152 showed the highest identity with P[9] specificity of human strains K8 and AU-1 and feline strains Cat2 and FRV-1, with homologies of 89.3 to 90.6% at the nucleotide level and 93.9 to 95.6% at the amino acid level. Thus, strain T152 was found to be a natural reassortant strain with G12 and P[9] specificities.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Antigens, Viral*
  • Capsid / genetics
  • Capsid Proteins*
  • Child, Preschool
  • Feces / virology
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Phylogeny
  • Rotavirus / classification*
  • Rotavirus / genetics
  • Rotavirus / isolation & purification*
  • Rotavirus Infections / virology*
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA
  • Serotyping
  • Species Specificity
  • Thailand

Substances

  • Antigens, Viral
  • Capsid Proteins
  • VP4 protein, Rotavirus
  • VP7 protein, Rotavirus

Associated data

  • GENBANK/AB071404
  • GENBANK/AB077766