Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Characterization of culture-positive adenovirus serotypes from respiratory specimens in Toronto, Ontario, Canada: September 2007–June 2008 | Virology Journal BioMed Central Open Access Short report Characterization of culture-positive adenovirus serotypes from respiratory specimens in Toronto Ontario Canada September 2007-June 2008 Rani Yeung1 AliReza Eshaghi1 Ernesto Lombos1 Joanne Blair1 Tony Mazzulli1 2 3 Laura Burton1 and Steven J Drews 1 2 3 Address Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Public Health Laboratories Branch Etobicoke Ontario Canada 2Department of Microbiology Mount Sinai Hospital Toronto Ontario Canada and 3Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada Email Rani Yeung - AliReza Eshaghi - Ernesto Lombos - Joanne Blair - Tony Mazzulli - Laura Burton - Steven J Drews - Corresponding author Published 26 January 2009 Received 5 September 2008 Accepted 26 January 2009 Virology Journal 2009 6 11 doi l 743-422X-6-11 This article is available from http content 6 1 1 1 2009 Yeung et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract This study describes the prevalence of culture-positive adenovirus serotypes in culture-positive respiratory specimens sent to the Central Public Health Laboratory Toronto Ontario Canada for the period September 2007-June 2008. Total nucleic acid was extracted from virus cultures using an automated extraction method followed by polymerase chain reaction and Sanger sequencing of the adenovirus hexon gene hypervariable region 7. 73 of specimens n 70 were from patients 4 years of age. Of the 96 adenovirus isolates the most common identified serotypes were serotype 3 n 44 46 .
