Waterborne outbreak of rotavirus diarrhoea in adults in China caused by a novel rotavirus

Lancet. 1984 May 26;1(8387):1139-42.

Abstract

During two epidemics of acute diarrhoea in China in late 1982/early 1983, more than 12 000 adults in two coal mining districts were affected. The virus isolated from stool samples resembled a rotavirus morphologically. Antigenically it lacked the group antigen shared by known rotaviruses. Like other rotaviruses it had a double-stranded RNA with 11 discrete segments, but the pattern of migration of the segments on polyacrylamide electrophoresis differed from those of other rotaviruses.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Antigens, Viral / analysis
  • Child
  • China
  • Diarrhea / epidemiology
  • Diarrhea / etiology*
  • Diarrhea / microbiology
  • Disease Outbreaks / epidemiology*
  • Feces / microbiology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • RNA, Viral / analysis
  • Rotavirus / genetics
  • Rotavirus / immunology
  • Rotavirus / isolation & purification*
  • Rotavirus / ultrastructure
  • Rotavirus Infections / epidemiology*
  • Rotavirus Infections / microbiology
  • Rotavirus Infections / transmission
  • Virion / ultrastructure
  • Water Microbiology*

Substances

  • Antigens, Viral
  • RNA, Viral