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A food‐borne outbreak of gastroenteritis due to genotype G1P[8] rotavirus among adolescents in Japan |
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| Authors: | Fuminori Mizukoshi Makoto Kuroda Hiroyuki Tsukagoshi Tsuyoshi Sekizuka Keiji Funatogawa Yukio Morita Masahiro Noda Kazuhiko Katayama Hirokazu Kimura |
| Institution: | 1. Tochigi Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Science, , Tochigi, 329‐1196;2. Pathogen Genomics Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, , Tokyo, 208‐0011;3. Gunma Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Sciences, , Gunma, 371‐0052;4. Faculty of Home Economics, Department of Food and Nutrition, Tokyo Kasei University, , Tokyo, 173‐0003;5. Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, , Tokyo, 208‐0011;6. Department of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, , Tokyo, 208‐0011 Japan |
| Abstract: | Six high school students in Tochigi prefecture, Japan, developed gastroenteritis after eating at a pork cutlet shop. Molecular epidemiologic analyses showed that the causative agent was genotype G1P8] rotavirus (RV), this being detected in stool samples from both the patients and the asymptomatic food handlers. The detected RV strains were closely related genetically. The only uncooked food that all victims had eaten was raw sliced cabbage. These findings results suggest that uncooked foods contaminated with RV may be sources of infectious gastroenteritis in adolescents. |
| Keywords: | adults gastroenteritis rotavirus salad |