Imported case of acute respiratory tract infection associated with a member of species nelson bay orthoreovirus

PLoS One. 2014 Mar 25;9(3):e92777. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092777. eCollection 2014.

Abstract

A Japanese man suffered from acute respiratory tract infection after returning to Japan from Bali, Indonesia in 2007. Miyazaki-Bali/2007, a strain of the species of Nelson Bay orthoreovirus, was isolated from the patient's throat swab using Vero cells, in which syncytium formation was observed. This is the sixth report describing a patient with respiratory tract infection caused by an orthoreovirus classified to the species of Nelson Bay orthoreovirus. Given the possibility that all of the patients were infected in Malaysia and Indonesia, prospective surveillance on orthoreovirus infections should be carried out in Southeast Asia. Furthermore, contact surveillance study suggests that the risk of human-to-human infection of the species of Nelson Bay orthoreovirus would seem to be low.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Acute Disease
  • Adult
  • Humans
  • Japan
  • Male
  • Orthoreovirus*
  • Reoviridae Infections / transmission
  • Reoviridae Infections / virology*
  • Respiratory Tract Infections / transmission
  • Respiratory Tract Infections / virology*

Grants and funding

This study was financially supported by Grants-in-Aid from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare Science Research Grant(s) (H22-Shinko-Ippan-006, H24-Shinko-Ippan-006, and H25-Shinko-Ippan-004). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.