Publication: Prevalence and diversity of human rotavirus among Thai adults
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2020-01-01
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10969071
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Journal of Medical Virology. (2020)
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Jantawan Satayarak, Stefan Thomas Strauss, Chatnapa Duangdee, Prakaykaew Charunwatthana, Kultida Jiamsomboon, Nathamon Kosoltanapiwat, Sompan Srinukham, Kobporn Boonnak Prevalence and diversity of human rotavirus among Thai adults. Journal of Medical Virology. (2020). doi:10.1002/jmv.26076 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/57982
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Prevalence and diversity of human rotavirus among Thai adults
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© 2020 Wiley Periodicals LLC Rotavirus infections have become one of the most common causes of infectious gastroenteritis in children. Although rotavirus infections have been intensively studied in infants and young children, the study in adults has been limited. As such, this study assessed the prevalence of rotaviruses and performed the molecular characterization of rotaviruses circulating in Thai adults experiencing acute gastroenteritis between January 2018 and December 2018. Group A human rotaviruses were detected in 100 feces samples by rapid immunochromatography. The peak incidence of infection occurred in February and began to decline in the summer months. From January 2018 to December 2018, there were 1344 acute gastroenteritis adult cases in the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Bangkok, Thailand. Among these, 310 cases were rotavirus-suspected cases. Only 100 samples tested positive for rotavirus via an immunochromatography test. Twentynine out of the 100 rotavirus-positive samples were further characterized by real-time polymerase chain reaction. The G3[P8] strain was identified as the most prevalent (31.0%) followed by G1P[8], G8P[8] and G9P[8], and G2P[8], which accounted for 20.8%, 17.2%, and 13.8%, respectively. Because of the detection of rare rotavirus genotypes, such as G8, the surveillance of rotavirus epidemiology is crucial in monitoring new emergences of rotavirus strains, leading to a better understanding of the effects of strain variation for further vaccine development.