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Imported case of acute respiratory tract infection associated with a member of species nelson bay orthoreovirus

Yamanaka A 1 , Iwakiri A 2 , Yoshikawa T 3 , Sakai K 3 , Singh H 3 , Himeji D 1 Show all authors , Kikuchi I 1 , Ueda A 1 , Yamamoto S 2 , Miura M 2 , Shioyama Y 2 , Kawano K 2 , Nagaishi T 4 , Saito M 4 , Minomo M 4 , Iwamoto N 4 , Hidaka Y 5 , Sohma H 6 , Kobayashi T 7 , Kanai Y 7 , Kawagishi T 7 , Nagata N 8 , Fukushi S 3 , Mizutani T 3 , Tani H 3 , Taniguchi S 3 , Fukuma A 3 , Shimojima M 3 , Kurane I 3 , Kageyama T 9 , Odagiri T 9 , Saijo M 3 , Morikawa S 10

Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Internal Medicine, Miyazaki Prefectural Miyazaki Hospital, Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
  • 2 Department of Microbiology, Miyazaki Prefectural Institute for Public Health and Environment, Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
  • 3 Special Pathogens Laboratory, Department of Virology 1, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Musashimurayama, Tokyo, Japan
  • 4 Nichinan Public Health Office of Miyazaki Prefecture, Nichinan, Miyzakaki, Japan
  • 5 Miyazaki City Public Health Office, Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
  • 6 Health Promotion Division, Miyazaki Prefecture Government, Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
  • 7 Laboratory of Viral Replication, International Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan
  • 8 Department of Pathology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Musashimurayama, Tokyo, Japan
  • 9 Influenza virus Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Musashimurayama, Tokyo, Japan
  • 10 Special Pathogens Laboratory, Department of Virology 1, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Musashimurayama, Tokyo, Japan; Department of Veterinary Science, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
PLoS One, 2014;9(3):e92777.
PMID: 24667794 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092777

Abstract

A Japanese man suffered from acute respiratory tract infection after returning to Japan from Bali, Indonesia in 2007. Miyazaki-Bali/2007, a strain of the species of Nelson Bay orthoreovirus, was isolated from the patient's throat swab using Vero cells, in which syncytium formation was observed. This is the sixth report describing a patient with respiratory tract infection caused by an orthoreovirus classified to the species of Nelson Bay orthoreovirus. Given the possibility that all of the patients were infected in Malaysia and Indonesia, prospective surveillance on orthoreovirus infections should be carried out in Southeast Asia. Furthermore, contact surveillance study suggests that the risk of human-to-human infection of the species of Nelson Bay orthoreovirus would seem to be low.

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