Thomas Briese*

, Neil Renwick*, Marietjie Venter†, Richard G. Jarman‡, Dhrubaa Ghosh§, Sophie Köndgen¶, Sanjaya K. Shrestha#, A. Mette Hoegh**, Inmaculada Casas††, Edgard Valerie Adjogoua‡‡, Chantal Akoua-Koffi‡‡, Khin Saw Myint‡, David T. Williams§§, Glenys Chidlow¶¶, Ria van den Berg†, Cristina Calvo##, Orienka Koch†, Gustavo Palacios*, Vishal Kapoor*, Joseph Villari*, Samuel R. Dominguez***, Kathryn V. Holmes***, Gerry Harnett¶¶, David Smith¶¶, John S. MacKenzie§§, Heinz Ellerbrok¶, Brunhilde Schweiger¶, Kristian Schønning**, Mandeep S. Chadha§, Fabian H. Leendertz¶, A.C. Mishra§, Robert V. Gibbons‡, Edward C. Holmes†††‡‡‡, and W. Ian Lipkin*
Author affiliations: *Columbia University, New York, New York, USA; †University of Pretoria/NHLS Tswhane Academic Division, Pretoria, South Africa; ‡Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand; §National Institute of Virology, Pune, India; ¶Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin, Germany; #Walter Reed AFRIMS Research Unit Nepal, Katmandu, Nepal; **Hvidovre University Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark; ††Centro Nacional de Microbiologia, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain; ‡‡Institut Pasteur Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire; §§Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia, Australia; ¶¶PathWest Laboratory, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia; ##Severo-Ochoa Hospital, Leganés, Madrid, Spain; ***University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, USA; †††Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA; ‡‡‡National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA;
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Table 1
Molecular diagnosis of ARI from 7 countries by using MassTag PCR* and VP4/2 sequencing†
| Country |
Season(s) |
Samples |
Picornavirus positive
|
| Total |
Novel clade |
HRV-A |
HRV-B |
HEV |
% Male |
Age range (mean/median) |
| South Africa |
2006 |
58 |
14 |
4 |
6 |
3 |
1 |
71 |
0.4–30 mo (5.6/3) |
| Côte d’Ivoire |
2006 |
52 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
100 |
22–28 y (25/25) |
| Nepal |
2005–06 |
80 |
17 |
4 |
7 |
5 |
1 |
56 |
0.25–56 y (8.5/3) |
| India |
2007 |
50 |
6 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
83 |
4–36 mo (17.8/18) |
| Australia |
2006 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
100 |
4–6 mo (5/5) |
| Denmark |
2007 |
70 |
7 |
5 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
57 |
1–8 mo (2.9/2) |
| Spain |
2003–2006 |
14‡ |
14 |
6 |
5 |
3 |
0 |
86 |
1–96 mo (23.2/15.5) |
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