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Genomic analysis of respiratory syncytial virus infections in households and utility in inferring who infects the infant

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    • بيانات النشر:
      Nature Publishing Group
    • الموضوع:
      2019
    • Collection:
      Imperial College London: Spiral
    • الموضوع:
      England
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      Infants (under 1-year-old) are at most risk of life threatening respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) disease. RSV epidemiological data alone has been insufficient in defining who acquires infection from whom (WAIFW) within households. We investigated RSV genomic variation within and between infected individuals and assessed its potential utility in tracking transmission in households. Over an entire single RSV season in coastal Kenya, nasal swabs were collected from members of 20 households every 3-4 days regardless of symptom status and screened for RSV nucleic acid. Next generation sequencing was used to generate >90% RSV full-length genomes for 51.1% of positive samples (191/374). Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) observed during household infection outbreaks ranged from 0-21 (median: 3) while SNPs observed during single-host infection episodes ranged from 0-17 (median: 1). Using the viral genomic data alone there was insufficient resolution to fully reconstruct within-household transmission chains. For households with clear index cases, the most likely source of infant infection was via a toddler (aged 1 to <3 years-old) or school-aged (aged 6 to <12 years-old) co-occupant. However, for best resolution of WAIFW within households, we suggest an integrated analysis of RSV genomic and epidemiological data.
    • ISSN:
      2045-2322
    • Relation:
      Scientific Reports; http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/71880; https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-46509-w
    • الرقم المعرف:
      10.1038/s41598-019-46509-w
    • الدخول الالكتروني :
      http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/71880
      https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-46509-w
    • Rights:
      © 2019 The Author(s). This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Cre-ative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not per-mitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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      edsbas.D5C626B3