Volume 18, Number 4—April 2012
Research
Emergence of Unusual G6P[6] Rotaviruses in Children, Burkina Faso, 2009–2010
Johan Nordgren1
, Leon W. Nitiema1, Sumit Sharma, Djeneba Ouermi, Alfred S. Traore, Jacques Simpore, and Lennart Svensson
, Leon W. Nitiema1, Sumit Sharma, Djeneba Ouermi, Alfred S. Traore, Jacques Simpore, and Lennart Svensson
Table 1
Distribution of G and P types of rotavirus strains detected among children with gastroenteritis, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, December 2009–March 2010
| Rotavirus type | No. (%) strains |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P[4] | P[6] | P[8] | P[mix]* | P[nt] | Total | |
| G1 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 18 (18) |
| G2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 (2) |
| G3 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 (8) |
| G6 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 (11) |
| G9 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 0 | 1 | 49 (49) |
| Gmix† | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 (6) |
| Gnt‡ | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 (6) |
| Total | 2 (2) | 36 (36) | 58 (58) | 3 (3) | 1 (1) | 100 (100) |
*P[6]/P[8].
†G1/G9P[6], G1/G6P[6], and G3/G6P[6] specificity was detected in 1 specimen each; 3 samples were found to be G1/G9P[8] specific.
‡Nontypeable.
1These authors contributed equally to this article.
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