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EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 24, Issue 2, Pages 201-209Publisher
CENTERS DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION
DOI: 10.3201/eid2402.171407
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- CDC [5U50CK000423]
- University of New Mexico Infectious Diseases and Inflammation National Institutes of Health [T32-AI007538]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES [T32AI007538] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Human adenovirus type 4 (HAdV-4) is most commonly isolated in military settings. We conducted detailed molecular characterization on 36 HAdV-4 isolates recovered from civilian adults with acute respiratory disease (ARD) in the northeastern United States during 2011-2015. Specimens came from college students, residents of long-term care facilities or nursing homes, a cancer patient, and young adults without co-morbidities. HAdV-4 genome types 4a1 and 4a2, the variants most frequently detected among US military recruits in basic training before the restoration of vaccination protocols, were isolated in most cases. Two novel a-like variants were recovered from students enrolled at a college in Tompkins County, New York, USA, and a prototype-like variant distinguishable from the vaccine strain was isolated from an 18-year-old woman visiting a physician's office in Ulster County, New York, USA, with symptoms of influenza-like illness. Our data suggest that HAdV-4 might be an underestimated causative agent of ARD among civilian adults.
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