Sánchez, GJ, Mayta, H, Pajuelo, MJ et al. (14 more authors) (2018) Epidemiology of Sapovirus Infections in a Birth Cohort in Peru. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 66 (12). pp. 1858-1863. ISSN 1058-4838
Abstract
Background: Sapovirus is one of the primary viral causes of acute gastroenteritis (AGE), especially where rotavirus vaccination has been implemented. The characteristics and impact of natural infection at the community level, however, have not been well documented.
Methods: Stool samples were analyzed from 100 children randomly selected from a community-based birth cohort study in Peru. All diarrheal and 1 nondiarrheal stools collected trimonthly from children up to age 2 years (n = 1669) were tested for sapovirus detection. Viral shedding duration was determined by testing additional weekly samples (n = 440) collected before and after a sapovirus-positive sample.
Results: The incidence of sapovirus infection in the first and second years of life was 4.3 and 11.1 per 100 child-months, respectively. By age 2 years, 82% of children had at least 1 sapovirus infection, and 64% had at least 1 sapovirus-associated diarrhea episode. The median shedding period was 18.5 days. In 112 of 175 infections, 14 genotypes from 4 genogroups (GI, GII, GIV, and GV) were determined. Among genogroups, GI were more frequently found in symptomatic infections than in asymptomatic infections (odds ratio, 3.1; 95% confidence interval, 1.3–7.4). Fifty-nine children had serial sapovirus infections, but only 3 had repeated infection of the same genotype.
Conclusions: Sapovirus was frequently detected in children with AGE at the community level during the first 2 years of life. Serial sapovirus infections by multiple genotypes in a child suggest genotype-specific immunity from each infection, which needs to be taken into account for vaccine development.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017, The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | sapovirus; birth cohort; diarrhea; gastroenteritis; epidemiology |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > Institute of Molecular Medicine (LIMM) (Leeds) > Section of Molecular Gastroenterology (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 07 Sep 2018 15:29 |
Last Modified: | 07 Sep 2018 15:29 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/cid/cix1103 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:135464 |
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