Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

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Molecular Epidemiology of Adenovirus Type 7 in the United States, 1966–2000¹

Dean D. Erdman*

, Wanhong Xu*, Susan I. Gerber†, Gregory C. Gray‡, David Schnurr§, Adriana E. Kajon¶, and Larry J. Anderson*

Author affiliations: *Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †Chicago Department of Public Health, Chicago, Illinois, USA; ‡Naval Health Research Center, San Diego, California, USA; §California Department of Health Services, Berkeley, California, USA; ¶Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA;

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Table 4

Recognized civilian outbreaks of human adenovirus 7 (Ad7) respiratory disease, United States, 1996–2000

Location	Date	Setting	No. cases^a	No. deaths	No. Ad7 isolates	No. restriction	Genome type
Houma, LA^b	June 1996	Pediatric chronic-care facility	13	7	4	2	7d2

Memphis, TN^c	Mar 1997	Community acquired	47	1	26	0	nd

Chicago, IL^d	Nov 1998	Pediatric chronic-care facility	31	8	11	11	7d2
		and tertiary hospital	37	0	6	6	"

New York City, NY^e	Oct 1999	Chronic-care facility for	33	7	15	15	7b_var
		mentally disabled persons

Des Moines, IA^f	Oct 2000	Pediatric chronic-care facility	20	4	9	9	7d2
^aSuspected and confirmed cases of Ad7 respiratory disease. ^bRobert Gohd, Children's Hospital, New Oreleans, LA (pers. comm.). ^fMichael Buley, Iowa Dept of Public Health, Des Moines, IA (pers. comm.). ^cMitchell et al. (16). ^dGerber et al. (17). ^eJennifer Calder, The Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY (manuscript in preparation).