Relative frequencies of rotavirus serotypes 1, 2, 3, and 4 in Venezuelan infants with gastroenteritis.

AUTOR(ES)

Flores, J

RESUMO

We have used a recently developed monoclonal antibody enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (K. Taniguchi, T. Urasawa, Y. Morita, H. B. Greenberg, and S. Urasawa, J. Infect. Dis. 155:1159-1166, 1987) for serotyping rotaviruses recovered from 134 Venezuelan infants over a period of 15 months. One hundred and nine of the specimens were typed with the following distribution: serotype 1, 48%; serotype 2, 16%; serotype 3, 22%; and serotype 4, 14%. Three specimens reacted with two different monoclonal antibodies. In addition, 6 specimens (5%) containing enough outer capsid antigen could not be typed; partial RNA sequence analysis of the glycoprotein gene from three of these six strains failed to reveal sequence differences with prototype strains that could be serotyped with the monoclonal antibodies. Variations in the recovery rates of the different serotypes were observed. Serotypes 2, 3, and 4 predominated at the beginning of the study, and serotype 1 predominated at the end of the study. Diarrheal illness appeared to be more prolonged in infants shedding rotavirus serotypes 1 and 3 than in those shedding serotypes 2 and 4.

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