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KMID : 1100720140340020145
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Annals of Laboratory Medicine
2014 Volume.34 No. 2 p.145 ~ p.147
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Prevalence of Human Astrovirus in Patients with Acute Gastroenteritis
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Ham Hee-Jin
Oh Se-Ah
Jang Jung-Im
Jo Suk-Ju
Choi Sung-Min
Park Son-Il
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Abstract
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The prevalence of human astroviruses was tested in patients with acute gastroenteritis by using conventional duplex reverse transcription (RT)-PCR and electrophoresis. Diarrheal fecal samples were collected from 9,597 patients at local hospitals in Seoul. The prevalence of astroviruses was 1.0% (94/9,597 patients; mostly infants), and that of sapoviruses was 0.1% (14/9,597 patients). Age- and gender- wise analyses were carried out on 29 astrovirus-positive patients having complete information on file regarding their age, gender, and other particulars. The results were higher in patients of ages 0 to 14 yr, and 69.0% of the astrovirus-positive patients were females, of which 69.2% were infants (0 to 12 months), and 61.5% were 1-4 yr old. Notably, in the case of 5 to 78-yr-old acute gastroenteritis patients, 100% were females.
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KEYWORD
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Astrovirus, Prevalence, Acute gastroenteritis, Infants
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