Blinded case-control study of the relationship between human coronavirus NL63 and Kawasaki syndrome

J Infect Dis. 2006 Dec 15;194(12):1697-701. doi: 10.1086/509509. Epub 2006 Nov 2.

Abstract

We conducted a blinded, case-control, retrospective study in pediatric patients hospitalized at The Children's Hospital, Denver, Colorado, to determine whether human coronavirus (HCoV)-NL63 infection is associated with Kawasaki syndrome (KS). Over the course of a 7-month period, nasopharyngeal-wash samples from 2 (7.7%) of 26 consecutive children with KS and 4 (7.7%) of 52 matched control subjects tested positive for HCoV-NL63 by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction. These data suggest that, although HCoV-NL63 was circulating in children in our community during the time of the study, the prevalence of infection with HCoV-NL63 was not greater in patients with KS than in control subjects.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Case-Control Studies
  • Child, Preschool
  • Colorado / epidemiology
  • Coronavirus / genetics
  • Coronavirus / isolation & purification*
  • Coronavirus Infections / complications*
  • Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology
  • Coronavirus Infections / virology
  • Female
  • Hospitals, Pediatric
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome / epidemiology
  • Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome / etiology*
  • Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome / virology
  • Nasopharynx / virology
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Prevalence
  • RNA, Viral / genetics
  • Retrospective Studies

Substances

  • RNA, Viral