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Volume 19, Number 11—November 2013
Dispatch

Evidence of Vaccine-related Reassortment of Rotavirus, Brazil, 2008–2010

Tatiana Lundgren RoseComments to Author , Marcelle Figueira Marques da Silva1, Mariela Martinéz Goméz1, Hugo Reis Resque, Maria Yury Travassos Ichihara, Eduardo de Mello Volotão, and José Paulo Gagliardi Leite
Author affiliations: Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (T.L. Rose, M.F.M. Silva, M.M. Gomez, H.R. Resque, E. M. Volotão, J.P.G. Leite); Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil (M.Y.T. Ichihara)

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Table 1

Clinical features of 27 patients infected with group A rotaviruses (G1P[8]), Brazil 2008–2010*

Strain State Age (mo)† Rotarix doses (mo/yr)
Time elapsed between vaccination and hospitalization Clinical symptoms
1st 2nd Diarrhea‡ Blood Fever Vomit
ES15221–08 ES 42
SE15901–08 SE 2 09/2008 7 d 3 No No Yes
SE 16536–09 SE 2 2 No Yes Yes
SE 16537–09 SE 4 03/2009 2 mo 6 No Yes Yes
SE 16779–09 SE 41 03/2006 05/2006 37 mo 1 Yes Yes Yes
SE 16782–09 SE 19 02/2008 04/2008 15 mo 3 No No y
SE 16800–09 SE 7 02/2009 5 mo 3 No No
SE 16803–09 SE 10 11/2008 01/2009 6 mo 1 No Yes Yes
SE 16894–09 SE 20 02/2008 05/2008 15 mo 2 No Yes No
SE 16897–09 SE 15 08/2008 10/2008 10 mo 1 No No Yes
SE 16898–09 SE 4 06/2009 2 mo 1 No No Yes
SE 16977–09 SE 9 02/2009 04/2009 4 mo 13 No Yes Yes
SE 16978–09 SE 10 01/2009 03/2009 6 mo 2 No Yes No
SE 17120–09 SE 22 02/2008 05/2008 17 mo 1 No No Yes
SE 17122–09 SE 9 07/2008 09/2008 5 mo 2 Yes No
SE 17123–09 SE 8 3 No Yes Yes
SE 17241–09 SE 7 06/2008 08/2008 3 mo 2 No Yes Yes
PE17887–09 PE 6 No Yes Yes
PE 17888–09 PE 10 11/2008 8 mo No Yes Yes
PE 17890–09 PE 20 02/2008 05/2008 18 mo No No Yes
PE 17891–09 PE 12 No Yes Yes
MA18999–10 MA 18
MA 19006–10 MA 2 08/10 4 d 1 Yes No No
MA 19013–10 MA 10
MA 19015–10 MA 48
MA 19030–10 MA 32 03/2008 29 mo 7 Yes No No
BA19391–10 BA 2 2 No No

*Prefixes represent origins of circulating strains in Brazil: ES, Espirito Santo; –, no data; SE, Sergipe; PE, Pernambuco; MA, Maranhão; BA, Bahia.
†Age of child at time of fecal sample collection.
‡Number of days child had diarrhea before fecal sample collection.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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