Circulation of hepatitis A genotype IIIA virus in paediatric patients in central India

Indian Journal of Medical Research

Volumn 139, Issue JUN, 2014, Pages 940-944

  Barde, P V ^a   Shukla, M K ^a   Pathak, Rucm ^a   Kori, B K ^a   Bharti, P K ^a  

^a INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Central India; Children; Genotype III A; Hepatitis A

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; CHILD; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INDIA; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS A VIRUS, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INDIA; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84905263680     PISSN: 09715916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. WHO Media Centre. Hepatitis A: Fact sheet N°328, updated July 2012. Available from: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs328/en/, accessed on January 24, 2013.
2. Mathur P, Arora NK. Epidemiological transition of hepatitis A in India: issues for vaccination in developing countries. Indian J Med Res 2008; 128, 699-704.
3. Arankalle VA, Sarada Devi KL, Lole KS, Shenoy KT, Verma V, Haneephabi M. Molecular characterization of hepatitis A virus from a large outbreak from Kerala, India. Indian J Med Res 2006; 123, 760-9.
4. Nalbantoglu B, Donma MM, Ozdilek B, Karasu E, Nalbantoglu A Shifting epidemiology of hepatitis a infection and vaccination status of children aged 6 months-12 years: time for mass vaccination. Iran JPediatr 2013; 23, 276-80.
5. th ed. Philadelphia, USA, Lippincott Williams Wilkins. 2007; p. 911-47.
6. Lu L, Ching KZ, de Paula VS, Nakano T, Siegl G, Weitz M, et al. Characterization of the complete genomic sequence of genotype II hepatitis A virus (CF53/Berne isolate). J Gen Virol 2004; 85, 2943-52.
7. Robertson BH, Jansen RW, Khanna B, Totsuka A, Nainan OV, Siegl G, et al. Genetic relatedness of hepatitis A virus strains recovered from different geographical regions. J Gen Virol 1992; 73, 1365-77.
8. Chadha MS, Lole KS, Bora MH, Arankalle VA. Outbreaks of hepatitis A among children in western India. Trans R Soc Trop MedHyg 2009; 103, 911-6.
9. Chobe LP, Arankalle VA. Investigation of a hepatitis A outbreak from Shimla Himachal Pradesh. Indian J Med Res 2009; 130, 179-84.
10. Chitambar S, Joshi M, Lole K, Walimbe A, Vaidya S. Co-circulation of and co-infections with hepatitis A virus subgenotypes IIIA and IB in patients from Pune, western India. Hepatol Res 2007; 37, 85-93.
11. Hussain Z, Das BC, Husain SA, Murthy NS, Kar P. Increasing trend of acute hepatitis A in north India: need for identification of high-risk population for vaccination. J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2006; 21, 689-93.
12. Tamura K, Peterson D, Peterson N, Stecher G, Nei M, Kumar S. MEGA 5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis using maximum likelihood, evolutionary distance, and maximum parsimony methods. MolBiolEvol 2011; 28, 2731-9.
13. Chadha MS, Chitambar SD, Shaikh NJ, Arankalle VA. Exposure of Indian children to hepatitis A virus & vaccination age. Indian J Med Res 1999; 109, 11-5.
14. Hadler SC, Webster HM, Erben JJ, Swanson JE, Maynard JE. Hepatitis A in day-care centers. A community-wide assessment. N Engl J Med 1980; 302, 1222-7.
15. Arankalle VA, Chadha MS, Chitambar SD, Walimbe AM, Chobe LP, Gandhe SS. Changing epidemiology of hepatitis A and hepatitis E in urban and rural India (1982-98). J Viral Hepat 2001; 8, 293-303.
16. Singh J, Charu P, Panda R, Bora D, Jain DC, Datta KK. Acute sporadic viral hepatitis in urban population of tribal districts of Madhya Pradesh. Indian Pediatr 1998; 35, 105-9.
17. Kulkarni MA, Walimbe AM, Cherian S, Arankalle VA. Full length genomes of genotype IIIA hepatitis A virus strains (1995-2008) from India and estimates of the evolutionary rates and ages. Infection, Genet Evol 2009; 9, 1287-94.
18. Yoon YK, Yeon JE, Kim JH, Sim HS, Kim JY, Park DW, et al. Comparative analysis of disease severity between genotypes IA and IIIA of hepatitis A virus. J Med Virol 2011; 83, 1308-14.
19. Joshi MS, Walimbe AM, Chitambar SD. Evaluation of genomic regions of hepatitis A virus for phylogenetic analysis: SuitabilityAv of the 2C region for genotyping. J Virol Methods 2008; 153, 36-42.