Environmental Surveillance of Human Enteroviruses in Córdoba City, Argentina: Prevalence and Detection of Serotypes from 2009 to 2014

FERNANDO S. FLORES; GISELA MASACHESSI; LAURA N. MOJSIEJCZUK; VERONICA E. PREZ; ADRIAN A. FARÍAS; JUAN J. AGUILAR; SILVIA V. NATES; FERNANDO S. FLORES; GISELA MASACHESSI; LAURA N. MOJSIEJCZUK; VERONICA E. PREZ; ADRIAN A. FARÍAS; JUAN J. AGUILAR; SILVIA V. NATES

Food and Environmental Virology

Spinger Nature

Lugar: New York; Año: 2019 p. 198 - 203

1867-0334

Environmental surveillance is an effective approach to investigate the circulation of human enteroviruses (EVs) in thepopulation. EVs excreted by patients who present diverse clinical syndromes can remain infectious in the environment forseveral weeks, and limited data on circulating environmental EVs are available. A 6-year (2009?2014) surveillance studywas conducted to detect non-polio enteroviruses (NPEVs) in the urban sewage of Cordoba city, Argentina. Echovirus 6(E-6) was the most prevalent (28%), followed by E-14 (17%), E-16 (14%), Coxsackievirus (CV) A9 (11%), E-20 (9%), andCVA24 (6%). Other minority serotypes (E-7, E-13, E-21, E-25, and CVB4) were found, which together represented 14% ofthe total. In the absence of a systematic EV disease surveillance system, the detection and characterization of sewage-borneNPEVs will help us better understand the changes in EV disease trends and the epidemic background of circulating EVs,which could help interpret the EV trends and warn of future outbreaks in this area.