Novel human parechovirus from Brazil

• Published in: Emerging infectious diseases Vol. 15; no. 2; pp. 310 - 313
• Main Authors: Drexler, Jan Felix, Grywna, Klaus, Stöcker, Andreas, Almeida, Patrícia Silva, Medrado-Ribeiro, Tereza Cristina, Eschbach-Bludau, Monika, Petersen, Nadine, da Costa-Ribeiro, Jr, Hugo, Drosten, Christian
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01-02-2009; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Subjects: Brazil; Brazil - epidemiology; Causes of; Child; Child, Preschool; communicable diseases; Control; Diagnosis; Diarrhea - epidemiology; Diarrhea - virology; Disease transmission; Dispatch; Distribution; Enteritis - epidemiology; Enteritis - virology; Feces - virology; genetic diversity; Genome, Viral; human parechovirus; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Parechovirus - classification; Parechovirus - genetics; Parechovirus - isolation & purification; Picornaviridae; Picornaviridae Infections - epidemiology; Picornaviridae Infections - virology; Picornavirus infections; Prevalence studies (Epidemiology); Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; RNA, Viral - analysis; RNA, Viral - isolation & purification; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Brazil; Germany
• ISSN: 1080-6040; 1080-6059
• DOI: 10.3201/eid1502.081028

Human parechoviruses (HPeVs) were detected by reverse transcription-PCR in 16.1% of 335 stool samples from children <6 years of age with enteritis in Salvador, Brazil. Whole genome sequencing of 1 sample showed a novel HPeV that has been designated as HPeV8.