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
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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
MeSH terms
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Adolescent
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Adult
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Aged
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Antigens, Viral / analysis
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Child
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China
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Diarrhea / epidemiology
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Diarrhea / etiology*
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Diarrhea / microbiology
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Disease Outbreaks / epidemiology*
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Feces / microbiology
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle Aged
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RNA, Viral / analysis
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Rotavirus / genetics
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Rotavirus / immunology
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Rotavirus / isolation & purification*
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Rotavirus / ultrastructure
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Rotavirus Infections / epidemiology*
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Rotavirus Infections / microbiology
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Rotavirus Infections / transmission
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Virion / ultrastructure
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Water Microbiology*
Substances
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Antigens, Viral
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RNA, Viral