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Volume 18, Number 11—November 2012
Research

Antigenic Diversity of Enteroviruses Associated with Nonpolio Acute Flaccid Paralysis, India, 2007–2009

C. Durga RaoComments to Author , Prasanna Yergolkar1, and K. Subbanna Shankarappa12
Author affiliations: Author affiliations: Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (C.D. Rao, K.S. Shankarappa); National Institute of Virology–World Health Organization–South East Asia Region Polio Laboratory Network, Victoria Hospital, Bangalore (P. Yergolkar); National Institute of Virology, Bangalore (P. Yergolkar); Victoria Hospital, Bangalore (P. Yergolkar)

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Table

Analysis of fecal samples in 2,786 children with AFP and in 780 healthy children for virus growth in RD cells and for viral protein 1 gene RT-PCR, India, 2007–2009*

State/RD cell status Total no. AFP samples (second samples) No. samples used for RNA extraction
Total no. (%) RD-positive patients No. (%) RT-PCR-positive patients/RD-positive or -negative patients
2007 2008 2009
Karnataka 929 (253)

Positive

 NA 51 75 87 213/676 (31.51) 141/213 (66.2)

Negative

 NA 48 60 32 0 4/158 (2.5)†

Healthy children

 NA 240 250 290 20/780 (2.56)† 18/20 (90.0)†
Uttar Pradesh: positive 1,833 (39) 129 165 232 526/1,794 (29.32) 331/526 (62.93)
Kerala 334 (18)

Positive

 NA 22 45 17 84/316 (26.6) 60/84 (71.7)

Negative

 NA 18
Total 3,096 490 595 676 823/2,786 (29.54) 532/823 (64.64)

*AFP, acute flacid paralysis; RT-PCR, reverse transcription PCR; NA, not applicable.
†Not included in RD cell–positive or RT-PCR–positive samples from children with AFP.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

2Current affiliation: University of Horticultural Sciences, Bagalkot, India.

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