title: Bufavirus genotype 3 in Turkish children with severe diarrhoea.
abstract: Recently a parvovirus called bufavirus (BuV) has been implicated as a causative agent of diarrhoea. To further reveal the epidemiology and genetic characteristics of BuV, this study was performed in Turkish children with diarrhoea. BuV was detected in 1.4% (8/583) of stool samples. All stool samples from healthy children (n = 148) were negative for BuV. Diarrhoea in BuV-positive patients was severe and occurred mainly during the colder months of the year. Complete genome sequences were generated from four BuVs. Only BuV3 was found, which was genetically and phylogenetically similar to Bhutanese BuV3, indicating that BuV3 is prevalent in Asian countries.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Microbiology, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Altay
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathobiology and Medical Diagnostics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yahiro
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Microbiology, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bozdayi
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Matsumoto
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatrics, Turkey.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sahin
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ozkan
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu, Japan.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nishizono
authors.affiliation: Department of Virology, Haartman Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Söderlund-Venermo
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathobiology and Medical Diagnostics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia; Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu, Japan; Research Promotion Institute, Oita University, Yufu, Japan. Electronic address: ahmed@oita-u.ac.jp.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ahmed
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology* / Q000821:virology; D005243:Feces / Q000821:virology; D005260:Female; D016679:Genome, Viral; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D010322:Parvoviridae Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology* / Q000821:virology; D017992:Parvovirus / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D010802:Phylogeny; D015995:Prevalence; D012621:Seasons; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017385:Sequence Homology; D014421:Turkey / Q000453:epidemiology
keywords: Bufavirus; Turkey; children; diarrhoea; prevalence