Volume 10, Number 9—September 2004
Research
Rotavirus Serotype G9P[8] and Acute Gastroenteritis Outbreak in Children, Northern Australia
Carl D. Kirkwood*†‡
, Nada Bogdanovic-Sakran*, Graeme Barnes*†‡, and Ruth Bishop*†‡
, Nada Bogdanovic-Sakran*, Graeme Barnes*†‡, and Ruth Bishop*†‡Table 2
Serotyping results from Australian centers January–December, 2001
| Location | n | % of rotavirus-positive samples by serotype |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G1 | G2 | G3 | G4 | G9 | NTa | ||
| Western Australia | |||||||
| Urban | 306 | 67.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 | – | 18.6 | 15.1 |
| Remote | 102 | 34.3 | 1 | – | 1 | 45.1 | 18.9 |
| Northern Australia (including Mt. Isa) | |||||||
| Alice Springs | 161 | 24.8 | – | – | – | 69 | 6.2 |
| Darwin | 74 | 5.4 | – | – | 1 | 81 | 12.2 |
| Gove | 31 | – | – | – | – | 100 | – |
| Mt. Isa | 25 | – | – | – | – | 100 | – |
| Southern Australia | |||||||
| Melbourne | 176 | 48.3 | 4.6 | 0 | 6.8 | 10.2 | 30.1 |
aNontypeable results include samples with mixed serotype results and samples that do not react with any of the serotyping monoclonal antibodies.
