Volume 14, Number 7—July 2008
Letter
Acute Gastroenteritis Caused by GI/2 Sapovirus, Taiwan, 2007
Fang-Tzy Wu*, Tomoichiro Oka†, Naokazu Takeda†, Hirokazu Kimura†, Grant S. Hansman†, Chih-Hsin Muo*, Shy-Yuan Liang*, Ching-Hsiang Hung*, Donald Dah-Shyong Jiang*, Jui Hsin Chang*, Jyh-Yuan Yang*
, Ho-Sheng Wu*, and Chen-Fu Yang*
, Ho-Sheng Wu*, and Chen-Fu Yang*
Table
Clinical symptoms and laboratory diagnosis results for sapovirus-related outbreak among college students, northern Taiwan, May 2007*†
| Specimen no. | Patient sex/age, y | Date of illness onset | EM results | RT-PCR results | Copies cDNA/g of stool‡ | Symptom |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fever | Diarrhea | Vomiting | Abdominal pain | ||||||
| 1 | F/20 | May 5 | – | + | 1.69 × 108 | – | + | + | + |
| 2 | F/26 | May 5 | – | + | 6.19 ×108 | – | + | + | – |
| 3 | M/19 | May 6 | – | + | 2.32 × 108 | – | + | – | + |
| 4 | M/18 | May 6 | – | + | 3.24 × 108 | – | + | + | + |
| 5 | F/21 | May 7 | + | + | 1.72 × 1010 | – | + | – | – |
| 6 | F/18 | May 4 | – | – | – | + | + | + | – |
| 7 | M/19 | May 7 | – | + | 4.28 × 108 | – | + | + | + |
| 8 | F/20 | May 6 | – | + | 2.86 × 107 | – | + | – | + |
*EM, electron microscopy; RT-PCR, reverse transcription–PCR; –, negative; +, positive.
†All specimens were collected May 8.
‡cDNA copies were determined by real-time PCR.
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