

@article {540,
	title = {A two decade survey of respiratory adenovirus in Taiwan: the reemergence of adenovirus types 7 and 4},
	journal = {J Med Virol},
	volume = {73},
	number = {2},
	year = {2004},
	note = {Lin, Kuei-Hsiang Lin, Yung-Cheng Chen, Hsiu-Lin Ke, Guan-Ming Chiang, Chi-Jung Hwang, Kao-Pin Chu, Pei-Yu Lin, Jih-Hui Liu, Ding-Ping Chen, Hour-Young Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov{\textquoteright}t United States J Med Virol. 2004 Jun;73(2):274-9.},
	pages = {274-9},
	type = {Journal Article},
	abstract = {From November 1999 to December 2001, three outbreaks of adenovirus (Ad) respiratory infection occurred in southern Taiwan. To determine the circulating serotypes and molecular epidemiology, a total of 524 virus strains were randomly selected from 1,064 strains isolated from 1981 to 2001, and were studied using restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) and polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-RFLP. The major subgenus found was subgenus B (45\%), followed by subgenus E (29\%) and subgenus C (25\%). Ad3 and Ad7 were the major types found during the 1st outbreak, which occurred from November 1999 to March 2000, while Ad4 was found mainly during the 2nd and 3rd outbreaks in October 2000 and September 2001, respectively. Both Ad7 and Ad4 were reemerged serotypes, whereas Ad3 was consistently isolated during the survey, although it declined drastically from 36 to 2\% in 2001. Genotype analysis in this study showed that the only strain of Ad7 found in 1983 was Ad7a, but all randomly selected strains of Ad7 isolated during 1999-2000 were Ad7b. The clinical features of 217 patients were analyzed during the 1999-2000 outbreaks. About 79\% of the total cases were less than 7 years old. The ratio of male to female was 2:1. Severe infections, such as pneumonia and acute bronchitis, accounted for nearly half of the cases (43\%). These results show the reemergence and changing of serotypes, the clinical association of respiratory adenovirus infections, and the molecular epidemiology of Ad7 genotypes in Taiwan during the past two decades.},
	keywords = {Adenovirus Infections, Human/*epidemiology/*virology Adenoviruses, Human/classification/*genetics/growth \& development/isolation \& purification Adolescent Cell Line Child Child, Preschool DNA Fingerprinting DNA, Restriction Fragment Length Respiratory Tract Infections/*epidemiology/*virology Taiwan/epidemiology Virus Cultivation, Viral/analysis/isolation \& purification Disease Outbreaks Female Genotype Humans Male Molecular Epidemiology Pharynx/virology Polymerase Chain Reaction Polymorphism},
	issn = {0146-6615 (Print) 0146-6615},
	doi = {10.1002/jmv.20087},
	author = {Lin, K. H. and Lin, Y. C. and Chen, H. L. and Ke, G. M. and Chiang, C. J. and Hwang, K. P. and Chu, P. Y. and Lin, J. H. and Liu, D. P. and Chen, H. Y.}
}
