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Molecular analysis of respiratory syncytial virus reinfections in infants from coastal Kenya
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UNSPECIFIED (2006) Molecular analysis of respiratory syncytial virus reinfections in infants from coastal Kenya. In: Conference of the Royal-Society-of-Tropical-Medicine-and Hygiene, Liverpool Sch Tropical Med, Liverpool, ENGLAND, NOV 18, 2004. Published in: JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 193 (1). pp. 59-67.
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Background. Individuals are reinfected with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) repeatedly. The nature of reinfection, in relation to RSV genetic and antigenic diversity, is ill defined and has implications for persistence and vaccine control.
Methods. We examined the molecular relatedness of RSV causing primary and repeat infections, by phylogenetic analysis of the attachment (G) gene in 12 infants from a birth cohort in rural Kenya, using nasal wash samples collected during a 16-month period in 2002-2003, which spanned 2 successive epidemics.
Results. Six infants were infected during both epidemics, 4 with RSV-A in the first epidemic followed by RSV-B during the second epidemic and 2 with RSV-A during both epidemics, with no significant G gene sequence variability between samples. Two infants were infected and reinfected with different RSV-A strains during the same epidemic. Possible viral persistence was suspected in the remaining 4 infants, although reinfection with the same variant cannot be excluded.
Conclusions. These are the first data that specifically address strain-specific reinfections in infancy in relation to the primary infecting variant. The data strongly suggest that, following primary infection, some infants lose strain-specific immunity within 7-9 months (between epidemics) and group-specific immunity within 2-4 months (during an epidemic period).
| Item Type: | Conference Item (UNSPECIFIED) | ||||
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QR Microbiology > QR180 Immunology Q Science > QR Microbiology > QR355 Virology Q Science > QR Microbiology |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES | ||||
| Publisher: | UNIV CHICAGO PRESS | ||||
| ISSN: | 0022-1899 | ||||
| Official Date: | 1 January 2006 | ||||
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| Volume: | 193 | ||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 9 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 59-67 | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Title of Event: | Conference of the Royal-Society-of-Tropical-Medicine-and Hygiene | ||||
| Location of Event: | Liverpool Sch Tropical Med, Liverpool, ENGLAND | ||||
| Date(s) of Event: | NOV 18, 2004 | ||||
| URI: | http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/34080 |
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