New Microbes and New Infections (Jan 2020)
Resurgence and predominance of G3P[8] human rotaviruses in north-central Bangladesh, 2018–2019
Abstract
Predominance of genotype G3P[8] rotavirus was revealed for children and adults with diarrhoea in north-central Bangladesh for a 1-year period from September 2018. The G3P[8] rotaviruses were phylogenetically close to recent Indian strains, having antigenic variation in VP7 and VP4 compared with old Bangladeshi strains. Keywords: Antigenic drift, Bangladesh, G3P[8], phylogenetic analysis, rotavirus