Electroferotipos cortos de rotavirus detectados en adultos con diarrea en Paraguay / Short electropherotypes of rotavirus detected in adults with diarrhea in Paraguay

La presencia de rotavirus en adultos ha sido subestimada por mucho tiempo debido a que la mayor incidencia y patogenicidad se observa en niños menores de 5 años. Con el fin de determinar los electroferotipos circulantes en adultos, se empleó la técnica de PAGE para analizar 23 aislados de rotavirus de individuos adultos (promedio de edad: 42,5 años; rango:24 a 67 años), recolectados entre Septiembre de 2003 a Febrero de 2005 del Laboratorio del Hospital San Roque, Asunción. En las 23 muestras se detectaron 5 electroferotipos diferentes, 19 presentaron alguno de los 3 patrones largos detectados (denominados LA, LB y LC) y 4 presentaron algún patrón corto (SA y SB). Desde 1998 hasta la fecha, nuestro grupo de trabajo detectó un solo caso de rotavirus con patrón corto (aislado en septiembre de 1999) luego de analizar más de 1500 heces de niños con diarrea aguda. Estudios previos en población infantil, han reportado que se necesitan varios años de estudio para identificar rotavirus con patrones cortos en una comunidad, sin embargo nuestros resultados sugieren que además es importante ampliar las variables demográficas de la población de estudio para encontrar más variantes de rotavirus, como en este caso es la aparición de patrones cortos en adultos sin que estos se presenten en niños.

Although rotavirus is recognized as the major ethiologic agent of acute diarrheal disease in children, the role of rotavirus as a pathogen in adults has long been underappreciated. In order to determine the electropherotypes of rotavirus that circulated in adults in Paraguay, 23 rotavirus isolated from patients older than 24 years (mean=42.5 range = 24­67) were analyzed by PAGE. Samples were collected at the Clinical Lab of the San Roque Hospital, Asunción,Paraguay from September 2003 to February 2005. Five different electropherotypes were detected, 19 samples showed long patterns (named LA, LB and LC) and 4 samples a short pattern (named SA and SB). Since 1998, our group has only detected one sample with a short pattern electropherotype (isolated in September 1999) in more than 1500 grounds of children with acute diarrhea. These results showed that it is necessary to study many epidemic years to detect rotavirus with short electropherotypes. However, we found that it is important to increase the demographic variables to find more rotavirus variability in a community, exemplified here by the short electropherotypes detected in adults.

Serotype and Nucleotide Analysis of Human Rotavirus Isolates in Korea

Rotaviruses belong to Reoviridae causes diarrhea in human beings as well as domestic animals. This study was conducted to see what type of human rotaviruses are distributed in Seoul and Kyung-gi province. Twenty two of 81 patients showed rotavirus positive with diagnostic kit and RNA electropherosis. We isolated all of rotaviruses from the patients. Electropherotypes of 22 isolates showed 4:2:3 :2 patters whereas those migration patterns were long type. All of those isolates belonged to group 4. Twenty out of 22 isolates reacted with monoclonal antibodies specific to G1, P1A and subgroup II, whereas rest of them, 4-29 and K-30 reacted with subgroup I specific monoclonal antibody. The nucleotide sequence of an isolate K-21 showed 98~100% and 90~96% homologies with those of Wa and KU strain, respectively.

Serotype and Nucleotide Analysis of Human Rotavirus Isolates in Korea

Rotaviruses belong to Reoviridae causes diarrhea in human beings as well as domestic animals. This study was conducted to see what type of human rotaviruses are distributed in Seoul and Kyung-gi province. Twenty two of 81 patients showed rotavirus positive with diagnostic kit and RNA electropherosis. We isolated all of rotaviruses from the patients. Electropherotypes of 22 isolates showed 4:2:3 :2 patters whereas those migration patterns were long type. All of those isolates belonged to group 4. Twenty out of 22 isolates reacted with monoclonal antibodies specific to G1, P1A and subgroup II, whereas rest of them, 4-29 and K-30 reacted with subgroup I specific monoclonal antibody. The nucleotide sequence of an isolate K-21 showed 98~100% and 90~96% homologies with those of Wa and KU strain, respectively.