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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, August 2006, p. 2997-3000, Vol. 44, No. 8
0095-1137/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.00065-06
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Asymptomatic Norovirus Infection in Mexican Children

Coralith García,1,2,3 Herbert L. DuPont,1,2,4 Kurt Z. Long,5 Jose I. Santos,6 and GwangPyo Ko7*

Center of Infectious Diseases, The University of Texas, School of Public Health, Houston, Texas,1 Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas,2 Instituto de Medicina Tropical "Alexander von Humboldt," Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru,3 St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas,4 Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts,5 Hospital Infantil de Mexico "Federico Gomez," Mexico City, Mexico,6 Institute of Health and Environment, Department of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea7

Received 11 January 2006/ Returned for modification 17 February 2006/ Accepted 22 May 2006

Sixty-three children in periurban Mexico City were examined for the occurrence of asymptomatic norovirus (NoV) infection from June to August 1998. NoV was detected in 48 of 161 stool specimens (29.8%), with 31 children (49.2%) having at least one positive stool. Asymptomatic NoV infection occurred commonly during summertime in a Mexican pediatric population.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Seoul National University, 28 Yunkeon-Dong, Chonro-Ku, Seoul 110-799, Korea. Phone: 82-2-3668-7882. Fax: 82-2-745-9104. E-mail: gko{at}snu.ac.kr.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, August 2006, p. 2997-3000, Vol. 44, No. 8
0095-1137/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.00065-06
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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