1. [Water-borne outbreak of serous meningitis caused by Echovirus-30 in Belarus].
- Author
-
Amvros'eva TV, Titov LP, Malders M, Hovi T, D'iakonova OV, Votiakov VI, Kvacheva ZB, Eremin VF, Sharko RM, Orlova SV, Kazinets ON, and Bogush ZF
- Subjects
- Base Sequence, DNA Primers, Enterovirus B, Human classification, Humans, Meningitis, Viral virology, Republic of Belarus epidemiology, Species Specificity, Disease Outbreaks, Enterovirus B, Human isolation & purification, Meningitis, Viral epidemiology, Water Microbiology
- 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.
- Published
- 2001