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  • Bucardo, FilemonUniversity of Leon (author)

Asymptomatic Norovirus Infections in Nicaraguan Children and its Association With Viral Properties and Histo-blood Group Antigens

  • Article/chapterEnglish2010

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  • Williams and Wilkins,2010
  • printrdacarrier

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  • LIBRIS-ID:oai:DiVA.org:liu-60232
  • https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-60232URI
  • https://doi.org/10.1097/INF.0b013e3181ed9f2fDOI
  • http://kipublications.ki.se/Default.aspx?queryparsed=id:121306107URI

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  • Language:English
  • Summary in:English

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  • Background: It has been previously reported that histo-blood group antigens (HBGAs) and particularly secretor status provides protection against symptomatic norovirus infection, but it remains unclear to what extent this includes asymptomatic infections in children. Methods: To explore whether HBGAs or certain viral genotypes are associated with asymptomatic norovirus infections in a pediatric population in Nicaragua, we investigated 163 children andlt;= 5 years of age, without a recent history of diarrhea (andlt;= 10 days). Results: Asymptomatic norovirus infections were observed in 11.7% (19/163), with children andlt;= 6 months of age being most frequently infected (16%). Of the 19 norovirus-positive children, 4 (21%) and 10 (53%) were infected with genogroups GI and GII, respectively, and 4 children (21%) were infected with viruses of both genogroups. Most children had andgt;= 10(6) viral genomes per gram of feces. Nucleotide sequence analysis (15/19) revealed uncommon genotypes, such as, GII. 7 (n = 5) and GII. 2 (n = 3). An interesting observation was the low frequency of norovirus GII. 4 strains among the asymptomatic children. AB blood type, Lewis a (Lea(a+b-)) phenotype and nonsecretor genotype (se(428)se(428)) were not found among the asymptomatic children, but they occurred in population controls. Conclusions: Frequency of asymptomatic norovirus infections was similar to that observed in symptomatic children from Nicaragua. Norovirus GII. 2 and GII. 7 were frequently detected but the globally dominating GII. 4 was infrequent. Host genetic factors previously observed to be associated with protection against symptomatic norovirus infection were not found in this study.

Subject headings and genre

  • norovirus
  • asymptomatic
  • host genetic factors
  • MEDICINE
  • MEDICIN

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  • Nordgren, JohanLinköpings universitet,Medicinsk mikrobiologi,Hälsouniversitetet(Swepub:liu)johno12 (author)
  • Paniagua, MargaritaUniversity of Leon (author)
  • Mollby, RolandKarolinska Institutet,Karolinska Institute (author)
  • Svensson, LennartLinköpings universitet,Molekylär virologi,Hälsouniversitetet(Swepub:liu)lensv66 (author)
  • Carlsson, B (author)
  • Kindberg, E (author)
  • University of LeonMedicinsk mikrobiologi (creator_code:org_t)

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  • In:PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE JOURNAL: Williams and Wilkins29:10, s. 934-9390891-36681532-0987

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