Molecular epidemiology of respiratory syncytial virus in children in sub-Saharan Africa

• Verfasst von: Ihling, Clara Marlene [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Schnitzler, Paul [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Heinrich, Norbert [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Mangu, Chacha [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Sudi, Lwitiho [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Souares-Coutant, Aurélia [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Gies, Sabine [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Sié, Ali [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Coulibaly, Boubacar [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Ouédraogo, Andiyam Thierry [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Mordmüller, Benjamin [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Held, Jana [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Adegnika, Ayola Akim [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Fernandes, José F. [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Eckerle, Isabella [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: May, Juergen [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Hogan, Benedikt [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Eibach, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Tabatabai, Julia [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Molecular epidemiology of respiratory syncytial virus in children in sub-Saharan Africa
• Verf.angabe: Clara Marlene Ihling, Paul Schnitzler, Norbert Heinrich, Chacha Mangu, Lwitiho Sudi, Aurélia Souares, Sabine Gies, Ali Sié, Boubacar Coulibaly, Andiyam Thierry Ouédraogo, Benjamin Mordmüller, Jana Held, Ayola Akim Adegnika, José F. Fernandes, Isabella Eckerle, Juergen May, Benedikt Hogan, Daniel Eibach, and Julia Tabatabai
• Jahr: 2021
• Umfang: 13 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 17.04.2023
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Tropical medicine & international health
• Ort Quelle: Oxford [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell, 1996
• Jahr Quelle: 2021
• Band/Heft Quelle: 26(2021), 7 vom: Juli, Seite 810-822
• ISSN Quelle: 1365-3156
• DOI: doi:10.1111/tmi.13573
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: Africa
• Sach-SW: children
• Sach-SW: genotypes
• Sach-SW: molecular epidemiology
• Sach-SW: RSV
• K10plus-PPN: 1842818805
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

Objectives This study investigated the molecular epidemiology of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) among febrile children with acute respiratory tract infection in Ghana, Gabon, Tanzania and Burkina Faso between 2014 and 2017 as well as the evolution and diversification of RSV strains from other sub-Saharan countries. Methods Pharyngeal swabs were collected at four study sites (Agogo, Ghana: n = 490; Lambaréné, Gabon: n = 182; Mbeya, Tanzania: n = 293; Nouna, Burkina Faso: n = 115) and analysed for RSV and other respiratory viruses using rtPCR. For RSV-positive samples, sequence analysis of the second hypervariable region of the G gene was performed. A dataset of RSV strains from sub-Saharan Africa (2011-2017) currently available in GenBank was compiled. Phylogenetic analysis was conducted to identify the diversity of circulating RSV genotypes. Results In total, 46 samples were tested RSV positive (Ghana n = 31 (6.3%), Gabon n = 4 (2.2%), Tanzania n = 9 (3.1%) and Burkina Faso n = 2 (1.7%)). The most common RSV co-infection was with rhinovirus. All RSV A strains clustered with genotype ON1 strains with a 72-nucleotide duplication and all RSV B strains belonged to genotype BAIX. Phylogenetic analysis of amino acid sequences from sub-Saharan Africa revealed the diversification into 11 different ON1 and 22 different BAIX lineages and differentiation of ON1 and BAIX strains into potential new sub-genotypes, provisionally named ON1-NGR, BAIX-KEN1, BAIX-KEN2 and BAIX-KEN3. Conclusion The study contributes to an improved understanding of the molecular epidemiology of RSV infection in sub-Saharan Africa. It provides the first phylogenetic data for RSV from Tanzania, Gabon and Burkina Faso and combines it with RSV strains from all other sub-Saharan countries currently available in GenBank.