Volume 12, Number 10—October 2006
Research
Human Rotavirus G9 and G3 as Major Cause of Diarrhea in Hospitalized Children, Spain
Alicia Sánchez-Fauquier*
, Vanessa Montero*, Silvia Moreno*, Monica Solé*, Javier Colomina†, Miren Iturriza-Gomara‡, Ana Revilla*, Isabel Wilhelmi§, Jim Gray†, and Gegavi/VIGESS-Net Group
, Vanessa Montero*, Silvia Moreno*, Monica Solé*, Javier Colomina†, Miren Iturriza-Gomara‡, Ana Revilla*, Isabel Wilhelmi§, Jim Gray†, and Gegavi/VIGESS-Net Group
Table 2
Pathogens in children <5 years of age, hospitalized with gastroenteritis, by region, Spain, 2005–2006
| Pathogen | No. samples (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albacete | Cáceres | León | Fuenlabrada | Leganés | Valencia | Total samples (%) | |
| Rotavirus | 79 (55.7) | 87 (54.4) | 29 (36.7) | 29 (50.9) | 123 (62.7) | 15 (68.2) | 362 (55.2) |
| Astrovirus | 0 | 4 (2.5) | 0 | 1 (1.7) | 0 | 0 | 5 (0.8) |
| Adenovirus | 3 (2.1) | 0 | 1 (1.3) | 0 | 7 (3.6) | 0 | 11 (1.7) |
| Norovirus | 8 (5.6) | 18 (11.3) | 5 (6.3) | 3 (5.3) | 9 (4.6) | 0 | 43 (6.5) |
| EB* | 16 (11.3) | 0 | 4 (5.1) | 3 (5.3) | 9 (4.6) | 0 | 32 (4.9) |
| EB + adenovirus | 1 (0.7) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (0.1) |
| Rotavirus + astrovirus | 1 (0.7) | 1 (0.6) | 2 (2.5) | 0 | 5 (2.6) | 1 (4.5) | 10 (1.5) |
| Rotavirus + norovirus | 2 (1.4) | 7 (4.4) | 3 (3.8) | 2 (3.5) | 16 (8.2) | 0 | 30 (4.6) |
| Norovirus + astrovirus | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 (3.5) | 3 (1.5) | 0 | 5 (0.8) |
| Norovirus + astrovirus + rotavirus | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (0.5) | 0 | 1 (0.1) |
| Negative specimens | 32 (22.5) | 43 (26.8) | 35 (44.3) | 17 (29.8) | 23 (11.7) | 6 (27.3) | 156 (23.8) |
| Total specimens† | 142 (21.6) | 160 (24.2) | 79 (12.0) | 57 (8.7) | 196 (29.9) | 22 (3.4) | 656 |
*EB, enteropathogenic bacteria.
†Percentages of isolations per total specimens in each region were 77.5, 73.1, 55.7, 70.2, 88.3, 72.7, and 76.2, respectively.
1Gegavi/VIGESS-Net Group members: A. Sánchez-Fauquier, V. Montero, S. Moreno, A. Potente, F. Adam, J.C. Sanz, J. Colomina, S. Llanes, F. Gimeno, C. Gutiérrez, C. Sainz de Baranda, M.J. López, P. Teno, E. Roman, M. Alonso, M. Marugán, I. Fernández, I. Wilhelmi, M.L. Cilleruelo
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