Whole genome analysis of multiple rotavirus strains from a single stool specimen using sequence-independent amplification and 454® pyrosequencing reveals evidence of intergenotype genome segment recombination

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2072-2082

  Jere, Khuzwayo C ^a   Mlera, Luwanika ^a   Page, Nicola A ^b   van Dijk, Alberdina A ^a   O'Neill, Hester G ^a  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Genome recombination; Rotavirus; Sequence independent genome amplification and 454 pyrosequencing; Whole genome analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; PROTEIN NSP1; PROTEIN NSP2; PROTEIN NSP4; PROTEIN NSP5; PROTEIN VP1; PROTEIN VP3; PROTEIN VP6; PROTEIN VP7; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOTYPE; INTERGENOTYPE GENOME SEGMENT RECOMBINATION; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE INDEPENDENT AMPLIFICATION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; FECES; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SOUTH AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; ARTIODACTYLA; ROTAVIRUS;

EID: 82655168806     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2011.09.023     Document Type: Article

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