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Rotavirus strains in stool specimens from 111 children aged 3–24 months admitted to hospital in Yogyakarta, Indonesia for treatment of acute diarrhoea were serotyped using VP7 serotype specific monoclonal antibodies in a double sandwich enzyme immunoassay. A serotype could be assigned to 59 of 111 specimens (53%). Inability to assign a serotype to 47% of specimens was probably due to loss of the outer capsid during transport of specimens from Indonesia to Australia. All four major human rotavirus serotypes were detected during the 15 month survey from June 1978 to August 1979, including one serotype 1, 5 serotype 2, 31 serotype 3, and 21 serotype 4 strains. One additional strain reacted with serotype 3 and 4 Mabs. Serotype 3 strains showed intratypic variation.
The relative frequency of serotypes 2, 3, and 4 varied during the 15 months and appeared to be influenced by climatic changes associated with dry and wet seasons. Vaccine strategies must take account of comparatively rapid changes of predominant serotypes in a community and are only likely to be successful if comprehensive immunity can be established simultaneously against the four major human serotypes.
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Bishop, R.F., Unicomb, L.E., Soenarto, Y. et al. Rotavirus serotypes causing acute diarrhoea in hospitalized children in Yogyakarta, Indonesia during 1978–1979. Archives of Virology 107, 207–213 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01317917
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