| molecular characterization and multiple infections of rotavirus, norovirus, sapovirus, astrovirus and adenovirus in outpatients with sporadic gastroenteritis in shanghai, china, 2010-2011. | rotavirus (rv), norovirus (nov), sapovirus (sav), human astrovirus (hastv) and human adenovirus (hadv) are significant because they are the most common pathogens that cause diarrhea in young children. the aim of this study was to investigate the genetic characteristics and compare the roles of these five viruses in outpatient children with diarrhea in shanghai. a total of 436 fecal samples were collected from pediatric patients with acute gastroenteritis from january 2010 to december 2011. the s ... | 2015 | 25772574 |
| the sero-prevalence of anti-adenovirus 5 neutralizing antibodies is independent of a chronic hepatitis b carrier state in china. | we investigated the prevalence of neutralizing antibodies (na) to human adenovirus (ad) 5 both in healthy subjects (hs) and chronic hepatitis b (chb) patients in shanghai. detection of anti-ad5 na (percentage of detection and titers) was similar between hs and chb patients. a high percentage of subjects harbored no detectable antibodies (32.2 %) while proportion of subjects displaying very high antibody titers was low (4 %). neither demographic factors (gender, age, health) nor ast/alt or hbv ci ... | 2015 | 25616844 |