Volume 13, Number 3—March 2007
Dispatch
Detection of G12 Human Rotaviruses in Nepal
Sher Bahadur Pun*, Toyoko Nakagomi*†
, Jeevan Bahadur Sherchand‡§, Basu Dev Pandey¶, Luis E. Cuevas#, Nigel A. Cunliffe†, C.A. Hart†, and Osamu Nakagomi*†
, Jeevan Bahadur Sherchand‡§, Basu Dev Pandey¶, Luis E. Cuevas#, Nigel A. Cunliffe†, C.A. Hart†, and Osamu Nakagomi*†
Table
Relative frequencies of various combinations of G and P types of human rotaviruses, Kathmandu, Nepal, August 2004 through July 2005
| Human rotavirus types | No. isolates (%) | Total, n (%) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P[4] | P[6] | P[8] | P[9] | Pmix | PNT | ||
| G1 | 0 | 5 (2.9) | 9 (5.3) | 0 | 2 (1.2) | 2 (1.2) | 18 (10.6) |
| G2 | 56 (32.9) | 5 (2.9) | 1 (0.6) | 0 | 1 (0.6) | 4 (2.3) | 67 (39.4) |
| G3 | 0 | 10 (5.9) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 (5.9) |
| G4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| G8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| G9 | 5 (2.9) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (0.6) | 6 (3.5) |
| G12 | 2 (1.2) | 29 (17.1) | 7 (4.1) | 0 | 0 | 1 (0.6) | 39 (23) |
| Gmix | 1 (0.6) | 6 (3.5) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 (4.1) |
| GNT | 6 (3.5) | 1 (0.6) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 (9.4) | 23 (13.5) |
| Total | 70 (41.2) | 56 (33) | 17 (10) | 0 | 3 (1.7) | 24 (14.1) | 170 (100) |
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