Environmental Surveillance of Human Enteroviruses in Córdoba City, Argentina: Prevalence and Detection of Serotypes from 2009 to 2014

Environmental surveillance is an effective approach to investigate the circulation of human enteroviruses (EVs) in the population. EVs excreted by patients who present diverse clinical syndromes can remain infectious in the environment for several weeks, and limited data on circulating environmental...

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Published inFood and environmental virology Vol. 11; no. 2; pp. 198 - 203
Main Authors Farías, Adrian A., Mojsiejczuk, Laura N., Flores, Fernando S., Aguilar, Juan J., Prez, Veronica E., Masachessi, Gisela, Nates, Silvia V.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Springer US 01.06.2019
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Argentina - epidemiology
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Biomedicine
Brief Communication
Chemistry/Food Science
Enterovirus - classification
Enterovirus - genetics
Enterovirus - isolation & purification
Enterovirus Infections - epidemiology
Enterovirus Infections - virology
Enteroviruses
Environmental Monitoring
Epidemics
Food Science
Humans
Outbreaks
Phylogeny
Serogroup
Serotypes
Sewage
Sewage - virology
Surveillance
Trends
Virology
Argentina
Serotypes
Enterovirus
PCR
Environmental surveillance
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Summary:Environmental surveillance is an effective approach to investigate the circulation of human enteroviruses (EVs) in the population. EVs excreted by patients who present diverse clinical syndromes can remain infectious in the environment for several weeks, and limited data on circulating environmental EVs are available. A 6-year (2009–2014) surveillance study was conducted to detect non-polio enteroviruses (NPEVs) in the urban sewage of Cordoba city, Argentina. Echovirus 6 (E-6) was the most prevalent (28%), followed by E-14 (17%), E-16 (14%), Coxsackievirus (CV) A9 (11%), E-20 (9%), and CVA24 (6%). Other minority serotypes (E-7, E-13, E-21, E-25, and CVB4) were found, which together represented 14% of the total. In the absence of a systematic EV disease surveillance system, the detection and characterization of sewage-borne NPEVs will help us better understand the changes in EV disease trends and the epidemic background of circulating EVs, which could help interpret the EV trends and warn of future outbreaks in this area.
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ISSN:1867-0334
1867-0342
DOI:10.1007/s12560-019-09379-z