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Rotaviruses belonging to the AU-1 genogroup recovered from Israeli infants with diarrhea

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The genetic and antigenic diversity of group A rotaviruses recovered from Israeli infants has been expanded recently by the inclusion of three unusual human rotavirus strains. Two rotavirus strains (Ro-5829 and Ro-5960) were shown to be the first viruses outside Japan that resembled the AU-1 genogroup of feline like human rotaviruses in their overall genomic constellation and in the restriction pattern of their polymerase chain reaction amplified gene 4 following digestion with EcoRI. Another strain (Ro-5193) turned out to be an intergenogroup reassortant between viruses belonging to the AU-1 and the bovine genogroups and resembled in that respect similar viruses isolated from infants in Italy.

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  1. Central Virology Laboratory, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel

    I. Shif, I. Silberstein & E. Mendelson

  2. Department of Microbiology, Akita University School of Medicine, Akita, Japan

    M. Iizuka & O. Nakagomi

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Shif, I., Iizuka, M., Silberstein, I. et al. Rotaviruses belonging to the AU-1 genogroup recovered from Israeli infants with diarrhea. Archives of Virology 138, 357–364 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01379138

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