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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, August 2000, p. 2889-2892, Vol. 38, No. 8
0095-1137/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Nosocomial Transmission of Echovirus 30: Molecular Evidence by Phylogenetic Analysis of the VP1 Encoding Sequence

Jean-Luc Bailly,* Aline Béguet, Martine Chambon, Cécile Henquell, and Hélène Peigue-Lafeuille

UFR Médecine, Laboratoire de Virologie, F-63002, Clermont-Ferrand Cedex 1, France

Received 8 December 1999/Returned for modification 21 February 2000/Accepted 1 June 2000

We investigated six cases of enterovirus infection in a neonatal unit. The index patient, a 5-day-old boy, was admitted with aseptic meningitis due to echovirus 30 (E30). Secondary infections with E30 occurred in five babies. Comparison of the complete VP1 sequences showed that the isolates recovered from the index patient and his mother were closely related to those recovered from the five babies with secondary infections, demonstrating a nosocomial transmission of the virus. In the phylogenetic tree reconstructed from the VP1 sequences, the isolates formed a monophyletic cluster related to an E30 strain collected in June 1997 during an outbreak of aseptic meningitis.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: UFR Médecine, Laboratoire de Virologie, 28 Place Henri-Dunant, F-63002 Clermont-Ferrand Cedex 1, France. Phone: 19 (33) 4 73 60 80 17. Fax: 19 (33) 4 73 44 90 29. E-mail: j-luc.bailly{at}u-clermont1.fr.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, August 2000, p. 2889-2892, Vol. 38, No. 8
0095-1137/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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