Imported case of acute respiratory tract infection associated with a member of species nelson bay orthoreovirus.

• Main Authors: Atsushi Yamanaka, Akira Iwakiri, Tomoki Yoshikawa, Kouji Sakai, Harpal Singh, Daisuke Himeji, Ikuo Kikuchi, Akira Ueda, Seigo Yamamoto, Miho Miura, Yoko Shioyama, Kimiko Kawano, Tokiko Nagaishi, Minako Saito, Masumi Minomo, Naoyasu Iwamoto, Yoshio Hidaka, Hirotoshi Sohma, Takeshi Kobayashi, Yuta Kanai, Takehiro Kawagishi, Noriyo Nagata, Shuetsu Fukushi, Tetsuya Mizutani, Hideki Tani, Satoshi Taniguchi, Aiko Fukuma, Masayuki Shimojima, Ichiro Kurane, Tsutomu Kageyama, Takato Odagiri, Masayuki Saijo, Shigeru Morikawa
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
• Series: PLoS ONE
• Online Access: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24667794/pdf/?tool=EBI

A Japanese man suffered from acute respiratory tract infection after returning to Japan from Bali, Indonesia in 2007. Miyazaki-Bali/2007, a strain of the species of Nelson Bay orthoreovirus, was isolated from the patient's throat swab using Vero cells, in which syncytium formation was observed. This is the sixth report describing a patient with respiratory tract infection caused by an orthoreovirus classified to the species of Nelson Bay orthoreovirus. Given the possibility that all of the patients were infected in Malaysia and Indonesia, prospective surveillance on orthoreovirus infections should be carried out in Southeast Asia. Furthermore, contact surveillance study suggests that the risk of human-to-human infection of the species of Nelson Bay orthoreovirus would seem to be low.