Abstract

We conducted a surveillance among acute respiratory tract infection (ARTI) cases to define the epidemiology, clinical characteristics and genetic variations of enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) in Beijing, China from 2015 to 2017. Nasopharyngeal swabs and sputum were collected from 30 sentinel hospitals in Beijing and subjected to EV and EV-D68 detection by real-time PCR. The VP1 gene region and complete genome sequences of EV-D68 positive cases were analyzed. Of 21816 ARTI cases, 619 (2.84%) were EV positive and 42 cases were EV-D68 positive. The detection rates of EV-D68 were 0 (0/6644) in 2015, 0.53% (40/7522) in 2016 and 0.03% (2/7650) in 2017, respectively. Two peaks of EV-D68 infections occurred in late summer and early-winter. Ten cases (23.81%) with upper respiratory tract infection and 32 cases (76.19%) presented with pneumonia, including 3 cases with severe pneumonia. The phylogenetic analysis suggested 15 subclade D3 strains and 27 subclade B3 strains of EV-D68 were circulated in China from 2016 to 2017. A total of 52 amino acid polymorphisms were identified between subclades D1 and D3. These data suggest an upsurge of EV-D68 occurred in Beijing in 2016, the new subclade D3 emerged in 2016 and co-circulated with subclade B3 between 2016 and 2017.

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Title
Upsurge of Enterovirus D68 and Circulation of the New Subclade D3 and Subclade B3 in Beijing, China, 2016
Author
Shen Lingyu 1 ; Gong, Cheng 2 ; Zichun, Xiang 3 ; Zhang Tiegang 4 ; Li, Maozhong 4 ; Li, Aihua 4 ; Luo, Ming 5 ; Huang, Fang 1 

 Capital Medical University, School of Public Health, Beijing, P.R. China (GRID:grid.24696.3f) (ISNI:0000 0004 0369 153X); Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Institute for immunization and prevention, Beijing, P.R. China (GRID:grid.24696.3f) 
 Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Institute for immunization and prevention, Beijing, P.R. China (GRID:grid.24696.3f) 
 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) & Peking Union Medical College, MOH Key Laboratory of Systems Biology of Pathogens and Christophe Mérieux Laboratory, IPB, CAMS-Foundation Mérieux, Institute of Pathogen Biology (IPB), Beijing, P.R. China (GRID:grid.12527.33) (ISNI:0000 0001 0662 3178) 
 Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Institute for immunization and prevention, Beijing, P.R. China (GRID:grid.12527.33) 
 Capital Medical University, School of Public Health, Beijing, P.R. China (GRID:grid.24696.3f) (ISNI:0000 0004 0369 153X) 
Publication year
2019
Publication date
2019
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20452322
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2210006496
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2019. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.