Volume 23, Number 4—April 2017
Dispatch
Detection and Molecular Characterization of Zoonotic Poxviruses Circulating in the Amazon Region of Colombia, 2014
Jose A. Usme-Ciro, Andrea Paredes, Diana M. Walteros, Erica Natalia Tolosa-Pérez, Katherine Laiton-Donato, Maria del Carmen Pinzón, Brett W. Petersen, Nadia F. Gallardo-Romero, Yu Li, Kimberly Wilkins, Whitni Davidson, Jinxin Gao, Nishi Patel, Yoshinori Nakazawa, Mary G. Reynolds, P. S. Satheshkumar, Ginny L. Emerson, Andrés Páez-Martínez
, and Andrés Páez Martínez.
, and Andrés Páez Martínez.
Table
Orthopoxvirus IgG and IgM antibodies and poxvirus genome detection in lesion and serum samples*
| Patient no. | Identification no. | Sex | Age, y | Vaccination status | Municipality | ELISA |
Real-time PCR (Ct) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IgG† | IgM‡ | VACV | Parapoxvirus | |||||||
| 1 | 2014030600020 | F | 13 | Unvaccinated | Valparaíso | Pos (0.176) | Pos (0.408) | Pos (21.8) | Neg | |
| 2 | 2014030600021 | F | 15 | Unvaccinated | Valparaíso | Pos (0.393) | Pos (0.450) | Pos (27.8) | Neg | |
| 3 | 2014030600022 | M | 46 | UNK | Valparaíso | Pos (0.327) | Pos (1.102) | Inc | Inc | |
| 4 | 2014030600023 | M | 34 | Unvaccinated | Valparaíso | Pos (0.166) | Neg | Neg | Pos (36.8) | |
| 5 | 2014042400031 (POX0001) | F | 24 | Unvaccinated | Valparaíso | Neg | Neg | Pos (21.6) | Neg | |
| 6 | 2014062800100 (POX0002) | M | UNK | UNK | Solita | Neg | Neg | Neg | Pos (35.9) | |
| 7 | 2013050600018 | M | 26 | Unvaccinated | Valparaíso | Pos (0.254) | Pos (0.898) | Neg | Neg | |
| 8 | 2013050600026 | M | 52 | UNK | Valparaíso | Pos (0.213) | Neg | Neg | Neg | |
| 9 | 2013050600019 | M | 17 | Unvaccinated | Valparaíso | Pos (0.261) | Eqi (0.094) | Neg | Neg | |
| 10 | 2013050600020 | M | 20 | Unvaccinated | Valparaíso | Pos (0.384) | Neg | Neg | Neg | |
| 11 | 2013050600021 | M | 47 | UNK | Valparaíso | Pos (0.383) | Pos (0.632) | Neg | Neg | |
| 12 | 2013050600022 | M | 18 | Unvaccinated | Valparaíso | Pos (0.450) | Pos (0.202) | Neg | Neg | |
| 13 | 2013050600027 | M | 27 | Unvaccinated | Valparaíso | Pos (0.224) | Pos (0.243) | Neg | Neg | |
| 14 | 2013050600023 | M | 24 | Unvaccinated | Valparaíso | Pos (0.482) | Neg | Neg | Neg | |
| 15 | 2013050600024 | F | 12 | Unvaccinated | Valparaíso | Pos (0.272) | Pos (0.128) | Neg | Neg | |
| 16 | 2013050600028 | M | 13 | Unvaccinated | Valparaíso | Pos (0.451) | Pos (0.427) | Neg | Neg | |
| 17 | 2013050600025 | M | 23 | Unvaccinated | Valparaíso | Pos (1.651) | Eqi (0.029) | Neg | Neg | |
*Ct, cycle threshold; eqi, equivocal; inc, inconclusive; neg, negative; pos, positive; UNK, unknown.
†OPXV IgG ELISA titers correspond to a 1:100 dilution of the serum sample.
‡OPXV IgM ELISA titers correspond to a 1:50 dilution of the serum sample.
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