Imported case of acute respiratory tract infection associated with a member of species nelson bay orthoreovirus

A Japanese man suffered from acute respiratory tract infection after returning to Japan from Bali, Indonesia in 2007. Miyazaki-Bali/2007, a strain of the species of Nelson Bay orthoreovirus, was isolated from the patient's throat swab using Vero cells, in which syncytium formation was observed....

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Published in:	PloS one Vol. 9; no. 3; p. e92777
Main Authors:	Yamanaka, Atsushi, Iwakiri, Akira, Yoshikawa, Tomoki, Sakai, Kouji, Singh, Harpal, Himeji, Daisuke, Kikuchi, Ikuo, Ueda, Akira, Yamamoto, Seigo, Miura, Miho, Shioyama, Yoko, Kawano, Kimiko, Nagaishi, Tokiko, Saito, Minako, Minomo, Masumi, Iwamoto, Naoyasu, Hidaka, Yoshio, Sohma, Hirotoshi, Kobayashi, Takeshi, Kanai, Yuta, Kawagishi, Takehiro, Nagata, Noriyo, Fukushi, Shuetsu, Mizutani, Tetsuya, Tani, Hideki, Taniguchi, Satoshi, Fukuma, Aiko, Shimojima, Masayuki, Kurane, Ichiro, Kageyama, Tsutomu, Odagiri, Takato, Saijo, Masayuki, Morikawa, Shigeru
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Public Library of Science 25-03-2014 Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subjects:	Acute Disease Adult Bats Biology and Life Sciences Chiroptera Health aspects Health risks Hospitals Humans Infection Infections Infectious diseases Influenza Internal medicine Japan Laboratories Male Medical research Medicine Medicine and Health Sciences Orthoreovirus Pathogens Pharynx Pteropus hypomelanus Public health Reoviridae Infections - transmission Reoviridae Infections - virology Respiratory tract Respiratory tract diseases Respiratory tract infection Respiratory Tract Infections - transmission Respiratory Tract Infections - virology Species Species classification Surveillance Vero cells Virology Viruses Japan
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Summary:	A Japanese man suffered from acute respiratory tract infection after returning to Japan from Bali, Indonesia in 2007. Miyazaki-Bali/2007, a strain of the species of Nelson Bay orthoreovirus, was isolated from the patient's throat swab using Vero cells, in which syncytium formation was observed. This is the sixth report describing a patient with respiratory tract infection caused by an orthoreovirus classified to the species of Nelson Bay orthoreovirus. Given the possibility that all of the patients were infected in Malaysia and Indonesia, prospective surveillance on orthoreovirus infections should be carried out in Southeast Asia. Furthermore, contact surveillance study suggests that the risk of human-to-human infection of the species of Nelson Bay orthoreovirus would seem to be low.
Bibliography:	ObjectType-Case Study-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-4 content type line 23 ObjectType-Report-1 ObjectType-Article-3 Conceived and designed the experiments: AY AI I. Kurane SM M. Saijo. Performed the experiments: AI KS H. Singh T. Kobayashi YK T. Kawagishi NN SF TM TY HT ST AF M. Shimojima T. Kageyama TO SY M. Miura YS KK TN M. Saito M. Minomo NI YH H. Sohma. Analyzed the data: M. Saijo TY SM. Wrote the paper: M. Saijo SM. Treatment of the patient: AY DH I. Kikuchi AU. Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Current address: Research and Education Center for Prevention of Global Infectious Diseases of Animals, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan
ISSN:	1932-6203 1932-6203
DOI:	10.1371/journal.pone.0092777