TABLE 1.
Serotype G9 rotaviruses isolated in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane, Australia, from June to August 1999
| Location | No. (%) of specimens examined that werea:
|
Strainc
|
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nontypeable | Serotype G9b | E901 | E902 | E903 | |
| Sydney | 13 (31.0) | 11 (26.2) | 9 | 1 | 1 |
| Melbourne | 7 (8.1) | 7 (8.1) | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| Brisbane | 6 (16.7) | 1 (2.7) | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 26 (15.9) | 19 (11.6) | 17 | 1 | 1 |
a
Numbers in parentheses indicate the percentages of the total number of isolates investigated during the 3-month period, i.e., for Sydney n = 42, for Melbourne n = 86, and for Brisbane n = 36.
b
Determined by production of G9-specific amplicon in RT-PCR.
c
Strain designation was based on electrophoretic migration patterns.