Prevalence of Human Astrovirus in Patients with Acute Gastroenteritis.
10.3343/alm.2014.34.2.145
- Author:
Heejin HAM
1
;
Seah OH
;
Jungim JANG
;
Sukju JO
;
Sungmin CHOI
;
Sonil PAK
Author Information
1. Department of Microbiology, Seoul Metropolitan Government Research Institute of Public Health and Environment, Gwacheon, Korea. hhj3814@seoul.go.kr
- Publication Type:Brief Communication ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
- Keywords:
Astrovirus;
Prevalence;
Acute gastroenteritis;
Infants
- MeSH:
Acute Disease;
Adolescent;
Adult;
Age Factors;
Aged;
Astroviridae Infections/complications/*epidemiology/virology;
Child;
Child, Preschool;
DNA, Viral/analysis;
Feces/virology;
Female;
Gastroenteritis/complications/*diagnosis;
Humans;
Infant;
Male;
Mamastrovirus/genetics/*isolation & purification;
Middle Aged;
Prevalence;
Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction;
Sapovirus/genetics/isolation & purification;
Sex Factors;
Young Adult
- From:Annals of Laboratory Medicine
2014;34(2):145-147
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
The prevalence of human astroviruses was tested in patients with acute gastroenteritis by using conventional duplex reverse transcription (RT)-PCR and electrophoresis. Diarrheal fecal samples were collected from 9,597 patients at local hospitals in Seoul. The prevalence of astroviruses was 1.0% (94/9,597 patients; mostly infants), and that of sapoviruses was 0.1% (14/9,597 patients). Age- and gender-wise analyses were carried out on 29 astrovirus-positive patients having complete information on file regarding their age, gender, and other particulars. The results were higher in patients of ages 0 to 14 yr, and 69.0% of the astrovirus-positive patients were females, of which 69.2% were infants (0 to 12 months), and 61.5% were 1-4 yr old. Notably, in the case of 5 to 78-yr-old acute gastroenteritis patients, 100% were females.
