Cosavirus Infection in Persons with and without Gastroenteritis, Brazil

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Stöcker, Andreas ; Souza, Breno Frederico de Carvalho Dominguez ; Ribeiro, Tereza Cristina Medrado ; Netto, Eduardo Martins ; Araujo, Luciana Oliveira ; Corrêa, Jefferson Ivan ; Almeida, Patrícia Silva ; Peixoto de Mattos, Angela ; Ribeiro, Hugo da Costa ; Pedral-Sampaio, Diana Brasil ; Drosten, Christian ; Drexler, Jan Felix
• Description:
  To determine possible cosavirus association with clinical disease, we used real-time reverse transcription PCR to test children and HIV-positive adults in Brazil with and without gastroenteritis. Thirteen (3.6%) of 359 children with gastroenteritis tested positive, as did 69 (33.8%) of 204 controls. Low prevalence, frequent viral co-infections, and low fecal cosavirus RNA concentrations argue against human pathogenicity.
• Subjects:
  Adult Case-Control Studies Child Cohort Studies Coinfection Diarrhea Feces Gastroenteritis Genes, Viral Humans Molecular Sequence Data Picornaviridae Picornaviridae Infections Prevalence Sequence Analysis, DNA

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 18(4):656-659.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Genre:
  Dispatch
• Place as Subject:
  Brazil
• Volume:
  18
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:64cedace58742f8cc0d91dbec2a86d5ec323a832db71043bcccd4361f685110b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/23876/cdc_23876_DS1.pdf
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