| diversity of rotavirus serotypes in mexican infants with gastroenteritis. | one hundred thirty-two stool specimens from infants with rotavirus gastroenteritis hospitalized in two mexican cities (mexico city and mérida) were examined by serotype- and subgroup-specific enzyme immunoassays. among them, 38 (29%) were serotype 1, 15 (11%) were serotype 2, 13 (10%) were serotype 3, 22 (17%) were serotype 4, none was serotype 5 or 6, and 44 (33%) could not be serotyped. by subgrouping, 121 specimens were characterized as follows: 24 (18%) were subgroup 1, 97 (74%) were subgrou ... | 1990 | 2166073 |
| comparison of human rotaviruses isolated in mexico city and in santiago, chile, by electrophoretic migration of their double-stranded ribonucleic acid genome segments. | during the period october to december 1979, rotaviruses were obtained from infants and young children hospitalized with acute gastroenteritis in mexico city and were compared by analysis of the migration of their double-stranded ribonucleic acid (rna) genome segments in gel electrophoresis. comparison of the results of this analysis and of those of similar studies carried out in 1977 and 1978 showed that the two rotavirus electropherotypes designated 2s and 21 have been continuously present and ... | 1980 | 6254887 |