Co-infections of Adenovirus Species in Previously Vaccinated Patients

Autor: Nikki E. Freed, Christian J. Hansen, Gary J. Vora, Marylou G. Gibson, Carolyn E. Meador, David A. Stenger, Anjan Purkayastha, Baochuan Lin, Kevin Gratwick, Donald Seto, David Metzgar, Kevin L. Russell, Marina Irvine, Clark Tibbetts
Rok vydání: 2006
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Zdroj: Scopus-Elsevier
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 12, Iss 6, Pp 921-930 (2006)
ISSN: 1080-6059
1080-6040
Popis: Adenoviral infections associated with respiratory illness in military trainees involve multiple co-infecting species and serotypes.
Despite the success of the adenovirus vaccine administered to US military trainees, acute respiratory disease (ARD) surveillance still detected breakthrough infections (respiratory illnesses associated with the adenovirus serotypes specifically targeted by the vaccine). To explore the role of adenoviral co-infection (simultaneous infection by multiple pathogenic adenovirus species) in breakthrough disease, we examined specimens from patients with ARD by using 3 methods to detect multiple adenoviral species: a DNA microarray, a polymerase chain reaction­ (PCR)–enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and a multiplex PCR assay. Analysis of 52 samples (21 vaccinated, 31 unvaccinated) collected from 1996 to 2000 showed that all vaccinated samples had co-infections. Most of these co-infections were community-acquired serotypes of species B1 and E. Unvaccinated samples primarily contained only 1 species (species E) associated with adult respiratory illness. This study highlights the rarely reported phenomenon of adenoviral co-infections in a clinically relevant environment suitable for the generation of new recombinational variants.
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