The Genomic Characterization of Enterovirus D68 from 2011 to 2015 in Beijing, China.
A retrospective surveillance study on enterovirus D68 was performed in Beijing, China, following the largest and most widespread EV-D68 infection, which occurred in the USA. From January 2011 to July 2015, EV-D68 was identified in 12 individuals with respiratory infections in Beijing, China. The phylogenetic relationships based on the genomic sequence alignment showed that there were two lineages circulating in Beijing from 2011 to 2015. Eight EV-D68 strains belonged to group 1 and four belonged to group 3. All EV-D68 strains from Beijing in 2014 were separately clustered into subgroup II of group 1. Based on these results, we concluded that the Beijing EV-D68 strains had little association with the EV-D68 strains circulating in the 2014 USA outbreak.
Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing 100013, China.
Tie Gang
TG
Zhang
Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing 100013, China.
Hong Quan
HQ
Li
Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing 100013, China.
Ai Hua
AH
Li
Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing 100013, China.
Meng
M
Chen
Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing 100013, China.
Cheng
C
Gong
Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing 100013, China.
Ming
M
Luo
Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing 100013, China.
Mei
M
Dong
Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing 100013, China.
Fang
F
Huang
D000293:Adolescent; D000368:Aged; D000068476:Beijing / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D030016:Enterovirus D, Human / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D004769:Enterovirus Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000821:virology*; D005260:Female; D016679:Genome, Viral; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010802:Phylogeny; D012189:Retrospective Studies