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detection of a porcine-like rotavirus in a child with enteritis in italy.

during a 1-year rotavirus surveillance of children hospitalized with acute gastroenteritis in brescia hospital, italy, a chimerical rotavirus strain, g3p[6], was detected, displaying the vp7 and vp4 genes of porcine origin and the nsp4 and vp6 genes of human origin. the reassortant nature of the virus rules out a direct zoonotic event.