Water-borne outbreak of serous meningitis caused by Echovirus-30 in Belarus |
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Authors: | Amvros'eva T V Titov L P Malders M Hovi T D'iakonova O V Votiakov V I Kvacheva Z B Eremin V F Sharko R M Orlova S V Kazinets O N Bogush Z F |
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Institution: | Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Minsk, Belarus. |
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Abstract: | In recent years outbreak of enterovirus infections caused by Echovirus-30 were rather frequently registered in different European countries. A major outbreak caused by this virus took place during the summer-autumn period of 1997 in the city of Gomel, Belarus. Sanitary epidemiological and molecular epidemiological studies made it possible to determine that the outbreak was water-borne. The sequence analysis of Echovirus-30 strains isolated from water and the cerebrospinal fluid of patients revealed a minor divergence between them (0.2%) indicative of their practical identity. The comparison of the Belorussian isolates with the strains isolated in Europe in 1994-1998 also showed a small percentage of differences in their genomes, which showed that the outbreak of Echovirus-30 infection was probably brought to Belarus from the territories of European countries. |
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