[Water-borne outbreak of serous meningitis caused by Echovirus-30 in Belarus]

Authors :: T V, Amvros'eva
L P, Titov
M, Malders
T, Hovi
O V, D'iakonova
V I, Votiakov
Z B, Kvacheva
V F, Eremin
R M, Sharko
S V, Orlova
O N, Kazinets
Z F, Bogush
Source :: Zhurnal mikrobiologii, epidemiologii i immunobiologii. (1)
Publication Year :: 2001
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.