Viral load and sequence analysis reveal the symptom severity, diversity, and transmission clusters of Rhinovirus infections
Background:Rhinovirus (RV) is one of the main viral etiologic agents of acute respiratory illnesses. Despite the heightened disease burden caused by RV, the viral factors that increase the severity of RV infection, the transmission pattern, and seasonality of RV infections remain unclear. Methods:...
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my.sunway.eprints.8702019-06-03T02:19:14Z http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/870/ Viral load and sequence analysis reveal the symptom severity, diversity, and transmission clusters of Rhinovirus infections Ng, Kim Tien Oong, Xiang Yong Lim, Sin How Chook, Jack Bee * Takebe, Yutaka Chan, Yoke Fun Chan, Kok Gan Hanafi, Nik Sherina Pang, Yong Kek Adeeba Kamarulzaman, Tee, Kok Keng R Medicine (General) Background:Rhinovirus (RV) is one of the main viral etiologic agents of acute respiratory illnesses. Despite the heightened disease burden caused by RV, the viral factors that increase the severity of RV infection, the transmission pattern, and seasonality of RV infections remain unclear. Methods: An observational study was conducted among 3935 patients presenting with acute upper respiratory illnesses in the ambulatory settings between 2012 and 2014. Results: The VP4/VP2 gene was genotyped from all 976 RV-positive specimens, where the predominance of RV-A (49%) was observed, followed by RV-C (38%) and RV-B (13%). A significant regression in median nasopharyngeal viral load (VL) (P < .001) was observed, from 883 viral copies/µL at 1-2 days after symptom onset to 312 viral copies/µL at 3-4 days and 158 viral copies/µL at 5-7 days, before declining to 35 viral copies/µL at ≥8 days. In comparison with RV-A (median VL, 217 copies/µL) and RV-B (median VL, 275 copies/µL), RV-C-infected subjects produced higher VL (505 copies/µL; P < .001). Importantly, higher RV VL (median, 348 copies/µL) was associated with more severe respiratory symptoms (Total Symptom Severity Score ≥17, P = .017). A total of 83 phylogenetic-based transmission clusters were identified in the population. It was observed that the relative humidity was the strongest environmental predictor of RV seasonality in the tropical climate. Conclusions: Our findings underline the role of VL in increasing disease severity attributed to RV-C infection, and unravel the factors that fuel the population transmission dynamics of RV Oxford University Press 2018-07-02 Article PeerReviewed text en cc_by_4 http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/870/1/Chook%20Jack%20Bee%202018%20Viral%20load%20Seq%20analysis%20HRV%20Clin%20Infect%20Dis.pdf Ng, Kim Tien and Oong, Xiang Yong and Lim, Sin How and Chook, Jack Bee * and Takebe, Yutaka and Chan, Yoke Fun and Chan, Kok Gan and Hanafi, Nik Sherina and Pang, Yong Kek and Adeeba Kamarulzaman, and Tee, Kok Keng (2018) Viral load and sequence analysis reveal the symptom severity, diversity, and transmission clusters of Rhinovirus infections. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 67 (2). pp. 261-268. ISSN 1058-4838 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29385423 doi:10.1093/cid/ciy063 |
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Background:Rhinovirus (RV) is one of the main viral etiologic agents of acute respiratory illnesses. Despite the heightened disease burden caused by RV, the viral factors that increase the severity of RV infection, the transmission pattern, and seasonality of RV infections remain unclear.
Methods: An observational study was conducted among 3935 patients presenting with acute upper respiratory illnesses in the ambulatory settings between 2012 and 2014.
Results: The VP4/VP2 gene was genotyped from all 976 RV-positive specimens, where the predominance of RV-A (49%) was observed, followed by RV-C (38%) and RV-B (13%). A significant regression in median nasopharyngeal viral load (VL) (P < .001) was observed, from 883 viral copies/µL at 1-2 days after symptom onset to 312 viral copies/µL at 3-4 days and 158 viral copies/µL at 5-7 days, before declining to 35 viral copies/µL at ≥8 days. In comparison with RV-A (median VL, 217 copies/µL) and RV-B (median VL, 275 copies/µL), RV-C-infected subjects produced higher VL (505 copies/µL; P < .001). Importantly, higher RV VL (median, 348 copies/µL) was associated with more severe respiratory symptoms (Total Symptom Severity Score ≥17, P = .017). A total of 83 phylogenetic-based transmission clusters were identified in the population. It was observed that the relative humidity was the strongest environmental predictor of RV seasonality in the tropical climate.
Conclusions: Our findings underline the role of VL in increasing disease severity attributed to RV-C infection, and unravel the factors that fuel the population transmission dynamics of RV |
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Viral load and sequence analysis reveal the symptom severity, diversity, and transmission clusters of Rhinovirus infections |
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