Diarrhea

Analysis of prognostic factors for infantile rotavirus infection

R. Zhou, Xu, J. L., Wu, D., and Tang, J. L., Analysis of prognostic factors for infantile rotavirus infection, vol. 14, pp. 790-796, 2015.

In this study, we investigated the prognostic factors of infantile rotavirus (RV) infection. A total of 102 infants with RV enteritis were divided into 2 groups according to the standards of improvement and cure at the time of discharge from the hospital: improvement group (N = 58; 47 males and 11 females with an average age of 15.19 ± 5.03 months) and the cure group (N = 44; 34 males and 10 females with an average age of 10.02 ± 4.92 months).

VP6 gene diversity in Brazilian strains of porcine group C rotavirus

K. C. Médici, Barry, A. F., Alfieri, A. F., and Alfieri, A. A., VP6 gene diversity in Brazilian strains of porcine group C rotavirus, vol. 9, pp. 506-513, 2010.

Group C rotavirus (RV-C) has been found in Brazilian pig herds; however, wild-type strains have not yet been characterized. We made a molecular analysis of a region of gene 5 in Brazilian RV-C strains. Stool samples from 11 piglets (diarrheic and with normal consistency) positive for the RV-C VP6 gene in an RT-PCR assay were sequenced. A 270-bp amplicon of nine sequences was analyzed. All sequences showed high identity to the Cowden strain of the porcine RV-C prototype and 81.3 to 94.3% to each other (230 nucleotide fragment).

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