Volume 19, Number 11—November 2013
Dispatch
Human Bocavirus in Children with Acute Gastroenteritis, Chile, 1985–2010
Jorge Levican, Esteban Navas, Joaquín Orizola, Luis Fidel Avendaño, and Aldo Gaggero
Table
HBoV in fecal samples from children with acute gastroenteritis, Chile, 1985–2010*
| Period, year | Total samples analyzed | Samples, no. (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HBoV1 | HBoV2 | HBoV3 | Total positive | ||
| A | |||||
| 1985 | 69 | 12 (17.4) | 2 (2.9) | 2 (2.9) | 16 (23.2) |
| 1986 | 17 | 3 (17.7) | 0 | 0 | 3 (17.7) |
| Total | 86 | 15 (17.4) | 2 (2.3) | 2 (2.3) | 19 (22.1) |
| B | |||||
| 1997 | 25 | 2 (8.0) | 1 (4.0) | 0 | 3 (12) |
| 1998 | 45 | 6 (13.3) | 1 (2.2) | 0 | 7 (15.6) |
| 1999 | 35 | 7 (20.0) | 1 (2.9) | 0 | 8 (22.9) |
| 2000 | 31 | 4 (12.9) | 0 | 1 (3.2) | 5 (16.1) |
| 2001 | 31 | 7 (22.6) | 1 (3.2) | 1 (3.2) | 9 (29) |
| 2002 | 31 | 3 (9.7) | 2 (6.5) | 1 (3.2) | 6 (19.4) |
| 2003 | 32 | 6 (18.8) | 0 | 0 | 6 (18.8) |
| 2004 | 31 | 7 (22.6) | 3 (9.7) | 1 (3.2) | 11 (35.5) |
| Total | 261 | 42 (16.1) | 9 (3.5) | 4 (1.5) | 55 (21.1) |
| C | |||||
| 2009 | 52 | 4 (7,7) | 4 (7,7) | 0 | 8 (15,4) |
| 2010 | 63 | 4 (6,4) | 3 (4,8) | 0 | 7 (11,1) |
| Total | 115 | 8 (7) | 7 (6,1) | 0 | 15 (13,0) |
| Total |
462 |
65 (14,1) |
18 (3,9) |
6 (1,3) |
89 (19,3) |
| *HBoV, human bocavirus. | |||||
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