SHORT COMMUNICATION - Isolation and Identification of Adenovirus in Hospitalized Children, under Five Years, with Acute Respiratory Disease, in Havana, Cuba
Nine Adenovirus (Ad) strains isolated in Cuba, from 128 nasopharingeal
swab specimens of children below five years old, with acute respiratory
diseases, during 1996 and 1997, were studied by restriction enzyme
analysis of genomic DNA with two endonucleases BamH I and Sma I. All
different fragment patterns were compared with the respective
prototypes. The identified adenoviruses were Ad 1 (n=4), Ad 2 (n=1) and
Ad 6 (n=4). Males were more frequently infected than females. The
analysis of the occurrence of these Adenovirus strains of subgenus C
revealed that Ad 1 and Ad 6 were the predominant serotypes in 1996 and
in 1997, respectively