[Water-borne outbreak of serous meningitis caused by Echovirus-30 in Belarus].
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.
Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Minsk, Belarus.
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D'iakonova
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Votiakov
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Kvacheva
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D001483:Base Sequence; D017931:DNA Primers; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D029822:Enterovirus B, Human / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006801:Humans; D008587:Meningitis, Viral / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000821:virology; D002094:Republic of Belarus / Q000453:epidemiology; D013045:Species Specificity; D014871:Water Microbiology
D017931:DNA Primers