Prevalence of Neutralizing Antibodies against Different Rotavirus Serotypes in Children with Severe Rotavirus-Induced Diarrhea and Their Mothers

AUTOR(ES)

Ray, Pratibha G.

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

Neutralizing antibody (NAb) responses to different rotavirus serotypes were compared in 64 convalescent-phase serum samples from hospitalized rotavirus-positive children less than 2 years of age and their mothers. Compared to the child patients, the mothers showed significantly higher NAb positivity to animal rotavirus serotypes G3 simian (96.88%), G6 bovine (85.94%), and G10 bovine (25.0%) and to human rotavirus serotypes G8 (79.69%) and G3 (57.81%) (P < 0.01 for each) but not to human serotypes G1, G2, G4, and G9 (P > 0.05). The overall prevalence of NAb among the child patients was low for human rotavirus serotypes G1 (20.31%) and G3 (21.8%). The comparative NAb response in individual mother-child paired serum samples was analyzed against each rotavirus serotype. A substantial number of child patients showed higher NAb titers than their mothers to serotypes G1, G2, G4, and G9, indicating that these serotypes are the major serotypes causing rotavirus diarrhea among the children of Pune, India. In these cases, the mothers were either negative or had lower titers of NAbs than their children. Correlation was observed between the infecting serotype and child patient serum that showed a homologous NAb response at a higher level than that of the mother. It appears that when the level of NAb to a particular serotype is higher among child patients than among their mothers, that serotype is the infecting serotype, and that low titers of NAb among the mothers predispose the children to infection with that serotype, if the serotype is in circulation.

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