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Molecular characterization of adenoviruses from children presenting with acute respiratory disease in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and detection of an isolate genetically related to feline adenovirus
Luiz, Lysa Nepomuceno; Leite, José Paulo Gagliardi; Yokosawa, Jonny; Carneiro, Bruno M.; Filho, Edson Pereira; de Mattos Oliveira, Thelma Fátima; Oliveira e Freitas, Guilherme Ramos; Costa, Lourenço Faria; de Paula, Nayhanne Tizzo; da Silveira, Hélio Lopes; Nepomuceno, Júlio César & Queiróz, Divina Aparecida Oliveira
Abstract
Human adenoviruses (HAdV) are a major cause of acute respiratory diseases (ARD), gastroenteritis, conjunc-
tivitis and urinary infections. Between November 2000-April 2007, a total of 468 nasopharyngeal aspirate samples
were collected from children with ARD at the Clinics Hospital of Uberlândia. These samples were tested by immu-
nof luorescence assay (IFA) and 3% (14/468) tested positive for the presence of HAdV. By performing polymerase
chain reaction (PCR) to detect HAdV DNA in samples that tested negative or inconclusive for all viruses identifiable
by IFA (respiratory syncytial virus, parainf luenza viruses 1, 2 and 3, inf luenza viruses A and B and HAdV), as well
as negative for rhinoviruses by reverse transcription-PCR, additional 19 cases were detected, for a total of 33 (7.1%)
HAdV-positive samples. Nucleotide sequences of 13 HAdV samples were analyzed, revealing that they belonged to
species B, C and E. Further analyses showed that species C (HAdV-2) was the most prevalent among the sequenced
samples. To our knowledge, this is the first report describing the presence of HAdV-4 in Brazil. We also detected an
isolate that was 100% identical to a part of the feline adenovirus hexon gene sequence.
Keywords
adenovirus - acute respiratory disease - children
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