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Isolation and preliminary characterization of antigenic variant of echovirus type 11

✍ Scribed by Kazuo Matsumoto; Takashi Kobayashi; Dr. Yoshinobu Kimura

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1990
Tongue
English
Weight
624 KB
Volume
31
Category
Article
ISSN
0146-6615

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Nosocomial infection with echovirus type 11 resulting in aseptic meningitis occurred among newborn babies in a hospital neonatal room at Fukui city. The virus was identified as a variant of echovirus type 11 by cross‐neutralization tests with antisera against the prototype Gregory strain and the current Fukui isolate. Fukui isolates expressed strain specific antigen(s) in addition to type specific common antigen(s), but lacked a certain antigen(s) which was present in the prototype strain. Sodium dodecyl sulfate‐polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis analysis of virus polypeptides revealed that the capsid proteins VP2 and VP3 of Fukui strain migrated more rapidly than the Gregory strain, while both strains had the same migration pattern of VP1 protein on which the antigenic determinants responsible for virus neutralization were present. The current strain produced large plaques and was more thermoresistant, suggesting some alterations in the structural proteins of the virus.

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