1. Isolation of cytopathic small round virus (Aichi virus) from Pakistani children and Japanese travelers from Southeast Asia.
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Yamashita T, Sakae K, Kobayashi S, Ishihara Y, Miyake T, Mubina A, and Isomura S
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- Adolescent, Adult, Animals, Asia, Southeastern, Child, Child, Preschool, Chlorocebus aethiops, Feces virology, HeLa Cells, Humans, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Japan, Middle Aged, Pakistan, Travel, Vero Cells virology, Virus Cultivation methods, Caliciviridae Infections virology, Diarrhea virology, Gastroenteritis virology, Norwalk virus isolation & purification
- Abstract
Aichi virus was isolated in Vero cells from 5 (2.3%) of 222 Pakistani children with gastroenteritis but none was found in 91 healthy children. Aichi virus was also isolated from 5 (0.7%) of 722 Japanese travelers returned from tours to Southeast Asian countries and complained of gastrointestinal symptoms at the quarantine station of Nagoya International Airport in Japan. Of 5 Japanese travelers, 3 were returning from Indonesia, and 2 from Thailand or Malaysia. These results indicate that Aichi virus or a similar agent is endemic in Southeast Asian countries and is a cause of gastrointestinal symptoms in children in these areas or in Japanese travelers who visit there.
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- 1995
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