Astrovirus detection in sporadic cases of diarrhea among hospitalized and non-hospitalized children in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, from 1998 to 2004
| Autor: | Ludmila N. Rocha, Maria do Carmo Sampaio Tavares Timenetsky, Fabrício José Benati, Caroline C. Soares, Maria Liz Ramírez, Norma Santos, Maria Carolina M. Albuquerque, Adriana G. Maranhão |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
| Předmět: |
Diarrhea
Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty medicine.disease_cause Astrovirus Feces Virology Rotavirus Astroviridae Infections medicine Humans Child Retrospective Studies Molecular Epidemiology biology Molecular epidemiology business.industry Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction virus diseases Infant Retrospective cohort study biology.organism_classification Infectious Diseases El Niño Child Preschool Diarrhea Infantile Bloody diarrhea medicine.symptom business Child Hospitalized Brazil Mamastrovirus |
| Zdroj: | Journal of medical virology. 80(1) |
| ISSN: | 0146-6615 |
| Popis: | We analyzed 379 stool samples collected from January 1998 through December 2004, from hospitalized and non-hospitalized children with diarrhea in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. These samples had prior negative results for other enteric viruses and bacterial pathogens. The specimens were analyzed for HAstV detection by RT-PCR. HAstV genotypes were determined by sequence analysis of the RT-PCR products. Twenty (5.3%) out of 379 samples were positive for astrovirus. Astrovirus was equally common among inpatients and outpatients and among different age groups. Of 20 HAstV-infected children, 13 (65%) were either hospitalized or received medical care in the emergence department, which suggests that they had a more severe illness. Only 7 (35%) of the 20 HAstV-infected children attended walk-in clinics, which suggests that they had mild disease. Other then diarrhea, fever was the most common symptom among the HAstV-positive patients, followed by vomit and bloody diarrhea. HAstV-1 was the predominant strain although genotypes 2 and 4 were also found. There was no obvious difference among HAstV strains detected from inpatients or outpatients or among different age groups. The study documented that astrovirus is an agent of acute diarrhea in children who are inpatients or outpatients in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil although it seems to be less common as a single cause of childhood diarrhea then rotavirus. |
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