Edinburgh Research Explorer Epidemiology and clinical associations of human parechovirus respiratory infections
Edinburgh Research Explorer Epidemiology and clinical associations of human parechovirus respiratory infections
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Infections with human parechoviruses (HPeVs) are prevalent in young children and have been associated with mild gastroenteritis and, less frequently, with meningitis and neonatal sepsis. To investigate the involvement of these viruses in respiratory disease, a highly sensitive nested PCR was used to screen a large archive of respiratory specimens, collected between January and December 2007. Respiratory samples had previously been tested for eight respiratory viruses, including respiratory syncytial virus and adenovirus, by PCR. HPeV was detected in 34 of 3,844 specimens, representing 27 of 2,220 study subjects (1.2%). HPeV types were identified by sequencing the VP3/VP1 junction amplified by PCR directly from clinical specimens. The assay could amplify all HPeV types examined with high sensitivity (types 1 and 3 to 6) and also identified HPeV types in all but one of the screen-positive study specimens (25 HPeV1 and eight HPeV6 specimens). Infections with both HPeV1 and HPeV6 were seasonal, with highest frequencies in Each combined RT-PCR was carried out in a 20- (cid:3) l reaction volume of the manufacturers’ supplied buffer (containing 0.4 mM deoxynucleoside triphosphates and 2.4 mM MgSO 4 ), 6 (cid:3) l of extracted RNA, 0.8 (cid:3) l of Superscript III RT/Platinum Taq polymerase, and 0.5 (cid:3) M of outer VP3/VP1 primers. The RT and PCR cycling conditions for the first round were, sequentially, 43°C for 1 h and 20 cycles of 53°C (1 min) and 55°C (1 min), followed by 70°C for 15 min and 94°C for 2 min. PCR comprised 40 cycles of 94°C (30 s), 50°C (30 s), and 68°C (105 s) and a final extension at 68°C for 5 min. One microliter of the product was transferred for a second PCR, which was performed as described for the 5 (cid:2) UTR PCR but with the VP3/VP1 inner primers. The final product of 304 bp was visualized by agarose gel electrophoresis as described above. Amplified DNA was directly sequenced using a BigDye Terminator kit (Ap-plied Biosystems, Warrington, United Kingdom) in both directions, from which a complete sequence between positions 2182 and 2437 was assembled. Type identification was achieved by phylogenetic analysis of nucleotide and inferred amino acid sequences using a data set containing sequences from published HPeV variants of previously assigned HPeV types. Nucleotide the VP3/ VP1 region GenBank FJ009260 FJ009290.