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ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY
Volume 154, Issue 9, Pages 1529-1532Publisher
SPRINGER WIEN
DOI: 10.1007/s00705-009-0473-y
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- Hungarian Scientific Research Fund [F048433]
- European Union [SP22-CT-2004-502571]
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Aichi virus, genus Kobuvirus, family Picornaviridae, has been proposed as a causative agent of gastroenteritis in human. Although high seroprevalence has been detected, it has been identified in only a few cases. We report detection of Aichi virus in Hungary. A total of 65 stool samples were tested retrospectively, collected from children with diarrhea, by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction. One (1.5%) sample from a 3-year-old girl was positive. Besides diarrhea, fever, purulent conjunctivitis and respiratory symptoms were also present at the same time with virus shedding. The genotype A virus, Kobuvirus/human/Szigetvar-HUN298/2000/Hungary (FJ225407), has 96% nucleotide identity to Aichi virus.
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