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Volume 17, Number 8—August 2011
Dispatch

Aichi Virus Shedding in High Concentrations in Patients with Acute Diarrhea

Ana Maria Bispo de Filippis, Sigrid Baumgarte, Luciano Kleber de Souza Luna, Monika Eschbach-Bludau, Alexander N. Lukashev, and Sung Sup ParkComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Author affiliations: University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany (J.F. Drexler, M. Eschbach-Bludau, C. Drosten); Institute of Hygiene and the Environment, Hamburg, Germany (S. Baumgarte); Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg (L.K. de Souza Luna); Chumakov Institute of Poliomyelitis and Viral Encephalitides, Moscow, Russia (A.N. Lukashev)

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Table 2

Characteristics of patients positive for Aichi virus, Germany, 2004*

Sample ID no. Sampling date Patient age, y/sex Animal contact Diarrhea Emesis Symptomatic contact person Recent travel history Other symptoms Suspicious food ingested Virus concentration†
D/VI 2169 Oct 19 7/M No Yes Yes Mother No Abdominal pain None 1.30 × 1012
D/VI 2244 Nov 2 9/M No Yes No None No Abdominal pain None 1.37 × 107
D/VI 2287 Nov 8 27/M No Yes No None No None None 6.77 × 107
D/VI 2321 Nov 10 26/F No No No None No Abdominal pain Fast-food chicken nuggets 6.09 × 109
D/VI 2359 Nov 16 16/M 2 birds Yes No None No Abdominal pain Ground pork 2.79 × 106
D/VI 2524 Dec 4 7/M No Yes No None Italy Abdominal pain Chicken 4.21 × 107
D/VI 2528 Dec 2 43/F No No Yes Daughter No Abdominal pain None 4.42 × 106
D/VI 2535 Dec 2 6/F No No Yes Mother No Throat pain None 2.27 × 107
D/VI 2582 Dec 6 38/F Cat Yes Yes None No Abdominal pain Minced meat 9.99 × 106
D/VI 2591 Dec 7 43/F Dog Yes Yes None No None None 1.08 × 102

*No patients had fever (>38.5°C) or co-infections. All samples were tested for norovirus, rotavirus, adenovirus, astrovirus, parechovirus, enterovirus, and common bacterial pathogens. ID, identification.
†RNA copies/g stool.

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