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Re-emergence of genotype G9 during a five-and-a-half-year period in Turkish children with rotavirus diarrhea

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This study was done to understand the dynamics of rotavirus genotype distribution in Turkish children. Samples were collected from January 2006 through August 2011 from children at a hospital in Ankara. Rotavirus was detected in 28 % (241/889) of the samples. Genotype G9P[8] was predominant (28 %), followed by G1P[8] (16.3 %) and G2P[8] (15.9 %). G9 was absent in the samples from 2006 and 2007 and then re-emerged in 2008 and increased gradually. Phylogenetic analysis showed that Turkish G9 rotaviruses of the present study formed a sublineage with strains from Italy and Ethiopia, possibly indicating spread of a clone in these countries.

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The study was supported in part by a Grant from the Research Fund at the Discretion of the President, Oita University (grant number 610000-N5021).

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  1. Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey

    Gulendam Bozdayi, Aylin Altay & Melda Meral

  2. Department of Pathobiology and Medical Diagnostics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

    Takaaki Yahiro, Sharnali Ahmed & Kamruddin Ahmed

  3. Department of Microbiology, Alanya State Hospital, Antalya, Turkey

    Bora Dogan

  4. Department of Medical Microbiology, T. Yuksek Ihtisas Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

    Bedia Dinc

  5. Department of Pediatrics, Ministry of Health, Ankara Training and Education Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

    Ayça Yeniaras & Yildiz Dallar Bilge

  6. Department of Microbiology (Research Promotion Institute), Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu-shi, Oita, Japan

    Kamruddin Ahmed

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Bozdayi, G., Altay, A., Yahiro, T. et al. Re-emergence of genotype G9 during a five-and-a-half-year period in Turkish children with rotavirus diarrhea. Arch Virol 161, 2879–2884 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-016-2986-5

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