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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, November 2006, p. 4095-4100, Vol. 44, No. 11
0095-1137/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.00653-06
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High Prevalence of Human Enterovirus A Infections in Natural Circulation of Human Enteroviruses ^,

Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway,¹ Jerome L. and Dawn Greene Infectious Disease Laboratory, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York,² Motol University Hospital, Second Medical School, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic³

Received 27 March 2006/ Returned for modification 22 June 2006/ Accepted 21 August 2006

Human enterovirus (HEV) infections can be asymptomatic or cause only mild illness; recent evidence may implicate HEV infection in type 1 diabetes mellitus and myocarditis. Here, we report the molecular characterization of HEV obtained in serial monthly collections from healthy Norwegian infants. A total of 1,255 fecal samples were collected from 113 healthy infants beginning at age 3 months and continuing to 28 months. The samples were analyzed for HEV nucleic acid by real-time PCR. Fifty-eight children (51.3%) had HEV infections. One hundred forty-five positive samples were typed directly by nucleotide sequencing of the VP1 region. HEV-A was detected most frequently, with an overall prevalence of 6.8%. HEV-B was present in 4.8% of the samples and HEV-C in only 0.2% of the samples. No poliovirus or HEV-D group viruses were detected. Twenty-two different serotypes were detected in the study period: the most common were EV71 (14.5%), CAV6 (10.5%), CAV4 (8.9%), E18 (8.9%), and CBV3 (7.3%). These findings suggest that the prevalence of HEV infections in general, and HEV-A infections in particular, has been underestimated in epidemiological studies based on virus culture.

Published ahead of print on 30 August 2006.

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