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A novel Enterovirus 104 strain, designated AK11, was detected in a 36-year-old man with an upper respiratory tract infection in Japan, representing a rare identification of this virus.
This report documents the detection of a novel Enterovirus 104 strain in an adult with an upper respiratory tract infection in Japan.
Alerts clinicians to rare EV-104 without changing URTI practice; leaves open its prevalence and role in adults.
Human enterovirus (HEV) C (family Picornaviridae, genus Enterovirus) consists of 3 types of poliovirus (1, 2, and 3), 9 types of coxsackievirus A 11, 13, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, and 24), and 9 types of enterovirus (EV) (95, 96, 99, 102, 104, 105, 109, 113, and 116) (www.picornaviridae. c o m / e n t e r o v i r u s / h e v -c / h e v -c .htm). EV-104 was fi rst identifi ed in 2009 in Switzerland in 8 children who had pneumonia or acute otitis media (1). To our knowledge, there has been only 1 other report of EV-104, detected in Italy in 3 adults and 2 children who had upper respiratory tract infection (RTI) (2). We report the detection of a novel EV-104 strain in an adult with upper RTI in Japan.
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Kaida et al. (2012) conducted a letter in Upper respiratory tract infection (n=1). Enterovirus 104 (EV-104) infection was evaluated on Detection and genomic characterization of Enterovirus 104. A novel Enterovirus 104 strain, designated AK11, was detected in a 36-year-old man with an upper respiratory tract infection in Japan, representing a rare identification of this virus.
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