Emerging Infectious Diseases (Aug 2010)

Picornavirus Salivirus/Klassevirus in Children with Diarrhea, China

  • Tongling Shan,
  • Chunmei Wang,
  • Li Cui,
  • Ying Yu,
  • Eric Delwart,
  • Wei Zhao,
  • Caixia Zhu,
  • Daoliang Lan,
  • Xiuqiang Dai,
  • Xiu G. Hua

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1608.100087
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 8
pp. 1303 – 1305

Abstract

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To learn more about salivirus/klassevirus, we tested feces of children with diarrhea in China during 2008–2009. We isolated the virus from 9/216 diarrhea samples and 0/96 control samples. The nearly full polyprotein of 1 isolate, SH1, showed 95% identity with a salivirus from Nigeria, indicating widespread distribution and association with diarrhea.

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