MOLECULAR-EPIDEMIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE OUTBREAK OF ASEPTIC MENINGITIS IN NOVOSIBIRSK REGION

The aim of this study was to investigate the outbreak of aseptic meningitis in theNovosibirskregion in 2008–2009. We studied genetic diversity and molecular-epidemiological characteristics of human enteroviruses that caused aseptic meningitis. Materials and metods. In the present study we investigated samples of cerebrospinal fluid from 199 patients with a diagnosis “aseptic meningitis”, based on the clinical characteristics of the disease (headache, stiff neck, fever, nausea, vomiting), and confirmed by laboratory tests of spinal fluid (lymphocyte cell count > 10 cells/ml).

All samples were tested by PCR for RNA of Enterovirus and Flavivirus and DNA Myc. tuberculosis, Borrelia spp., Neisseria spp. In the samples there were not found RNA Flavivirus, DNA Myc. tuberculosis, Borrelia spp., Neisseria spp., but in 73 samples (37%) was identified RNA enterovirus (EV). Determination of nucleotide sequences of 5’UTR and VP1-region of EV revealed that they belong to the following genotypes: the highest percentage was presented by genotype ECHO 30 (62%); another genotypes were Cox A2 (8%), Cox A4 (5%), Cox A14 (3%), Cox A16 (5%), Cox B5 (8%), ECHO 6 (3%), ECHO 9 (3% ) and ECHO 25 (3%). In 2008 most of the EV that caused the symptoms of aseptic meningitis belonged to genotype ECHO 30 (76%). In 2009 the clinical specimens containing genotype ECHO 30 were not found, but the largest percentage of EV belonged to genotypes Cox A2 (33%) and Cox A4 (22%). Thus, in 2008 we recorded outbreak of aseptic meningitis, the major etiological factor was enterovirus ECHO 30. And the rise of the incidence of aseptic meningitis in 2009 is related to the circulation of new genotypes of EV. The investigated strains were deposited in an international database GenBank under accession numbers KP258231-KP258235, HM559584.

meningitis, enterovirus infections, enteroviruses, Echovirus, Coxsackievirus, Enterovirus

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