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Adenovirus isolated from Mexican patients with Acute Respiratory Infection Introduction. Adenoviruses are responsible for at least 5% of acute respiratory infections world wide. Regularly, they produce self-limited middle respiratory tract infections. Depending on the type of infecting adenovirus and the immunological status of the patient, adenoviral infection may result in high morbidity of respiratory diseases. Objective. To identify the adenovirus type from isolates of patients with acute respiratory infection. Material and Methods. In order to isolate the adenovirus agent, samples of respiratory secretion were inoculated into HEP-2 cells. Detection of adenoviral isolation was done by indirect immunofluorescence. Adenoviral typing was done by restriction enzyme analysis using the enzymes Eco-RI, Hind-III, Bgl-II and Sma-I (RFLP). Results. A total of 118 samples were analysed, of which 22% were identified as adenovirus positive by specific immunofluorescence. The RFLP pattern allowed the typing of Ad1 in 4 samples, Ad2 in 6 samples and 17 samples had the type Ad5. Conclusions. We are reporting for the first time the presence of Ad1, Ad2, and Ad5 in patients with acute respiratory infection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On 6 December 2013, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) reported confirmation of the first two cases of indigenous transmission of chikungunya fever (CHIK) in the Region of the Americas on the island of Sint Maarten (Netherlands Antilles). For the period 2013-2014, a total of 25 627 confirmed autochthonous cases were distributed in 43 countries, with Mexico reporting 155 cases in five states. Information on cases of CHIK in Mexico was obtained from the database of the General Directorate of Epidemiology (Ministry of Health of Mexico). The distribution of confirmed autochthonous cases of CHIK for 2015, by sex, was 64% female (5 583) and 36% male (3 085). The most frequent symptoms were fever in 98% of cases (8 564), followed by headache in 91.6% (7 941), myalgia in 89.9% (7 792), mild arthralgias in 73.5% (6 367), severe polyarthralgia in 72.6% (6 295), and exanthema in 58% (5 032). The clinical presentation of autochthonous cases of CHIK in Mexico has shown several clinical manifestations different from those seen in outbreaks in African and Asian countries and other regions in the Americas; for example, a greater percentage of cases with headache and myalgia and a smaller percentage of cases with arthralgia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]