Detection of Rare G3P[19] Group A Rotavirus in Human Patient, Italy (http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/20/11/13-1699)

摘要

Group A rotavirus (RVA) is the leading cause of acute gastroenteritis in children <5 years of age worldwide, causing ≈450,000 deaths annually. The RVA genome is composed of 11 double-stranded RNA segments, encoding 6 structural viral (VP) and 5 nonstructural (NS) proteins (1). The outer capsid proteins, VP7 and VP4, elicit neutralizing antibodies. The genes encoding these proteins specify at least 27 G and 37 P genotypes, which are used for RVA binary classification. Most RVA human infections worldwide are related to 5 major genotypes: G1P[8], G2P[4], G3P[8], G4P[8], and G9P[8] (2). Genome segment reassortment between human strains or human and animal strains during co-infections can generate viruses with novel genotype combinations, possibly influencing the virus phenotype (2). Some human and animal RVA strains possess unusual genotype combinations (3,4), and some strains might partially escape vaccine- induced immune protection (5).