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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
ISSN: 1678-8060 EISSN: 1678-8060
Vol. 111, No. 6, 2016, pp. 403-406
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Bioline Code: oc16059
Full paper language: English
Document type: Short Communication
Document available free of charge
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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Vol. 111, No. 6, 2016, pp. 403-406
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A non-enteric adenovirus A12 gastroenteritis outbreak in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rodrigues Portes, Silvana Augusta; Mello Volotão, Eduardo de; Rocha, Monica Simões; Rebelo, Maria Cristina; Trindade Pinheiro Xavier, Maria da Penha; Assis, Rosane Maria de; Rose, Tatiana Lundgren; Miagostovich, Marize Pereira; Gagliardi Leite, José Paulo & Carvalho-Costa, Filipe Anibal
Abstract
A gastroenteritis outbreak that occurred in 2013 in a low-income community in Rio de Janeiro was investigated
for the presence of enteric viruses, including species A rotavirus (RVA), norovirus (NoV), astrovirus (HAstV), bocavirus
(HBoV), aichivirus (AiV), and adenovirus (HAdV). Five of nine stool samples (83%) from patients were positive
for HAdV, and no other enteric viruses were detected. Polymerase chain reaction products were sequenced and subjected
to phylogenetic analysis, which revealed four strains and one strain of non-enteric HAdV-A12 and HAdV-F41,
respectively. The HAdV-A12 nucleotide sequences shared 100% nucleotide similarity. Viral load was assessed using
a TaqMan real-time PCR assay. Stool samples that were positive for HAdV-A12 had high viral loads (mean 1.9 X 107
DNA copies/g stool). All four patients with HAdV-A12 were < 25 months of age and had symptoms of fever and diarrhoea.
Evaluation of enteric virus outbreaks allows the characterisation of novel or unique diarrhoea-associated
viruses in regions where RVA vaccination is routinely performed.
Keywords
gastroenteritis; adenovirus; quantitative polymerase chain reaction
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