New Genome Type of Adenovirus Serotype 4 Caused Nosocomial Infections Associated with Epidemic Conjunctivitis in Japan

Overview

Journal J Clin Microbiol

Specialty Microbiology

Date 2004 Aug 7

PMID 15297510

Citations 15

Authors

Toshihide Ariga

Yasushi Shimada

Kazuhiro Ohgami

Yoshitsugu Tagawa

Hiroaki Ishiko

Koki Aoki

Shigeaki Ohno

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Abstract

Human adenovirus type 4 is one of the major serotypes isolated from patients with adenoviral conjunctivitis. In 2001 we encountered nosocomial infections with epidemic conjunctivitis in the ophthalmology ward of one hospital in Sapporo, which is in the northern part of Japan. Adenoviruses were isolated from the patients with this nosocomial infection and identified as adenovirus type 4 (AdV-4) by a neutralization test with serotype-specific antiserum. When the cleavage patterns of the isolates were compared with the full viral genome with BamHI and SmaI, the cleavage patterns of the isolates were shown to be different from those of AdV-4p and other previously known AdV-4 variants. The nucleotide sequences of the fiber gene of the isolates showed the highest homologies (94.3%) with AdV-4 among the nucleotide sequences available from GenBank and formed a monophyletic cluster along with the prototype strain of AdV-4. The isolates, however, were located in a different lineage from those of AdV-4p and the AdV-4 variant from the sporadic infections. We conclude that the nosocomial infection that appeared in 2001 was caused by a new genome type of AdV-4, which was designated AdV-4c.

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