Outbreak of Echoviruses in middle and south Iraqi provinces

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  • Razak H Eissa Central Public Health Laboratories, Baghdad, Iraq Author
    • Razak H Eissa Central Public Health Laboratories, Baghdad, Iraq Author

      Keywords:

      Echoviruses, Enteroviral, Iraqi provinces

      Abstract

      This study included 210 patients with Enteroviral symptoms. All samples were collected from middle and south Iraqi provinces. The highest positive percentage was found in Baghdad (28.8 %). The percentages in the other provinces were 26.7 %, 20 % 20 % and 10 % in Basrah, maysan, Karbala and Wasat, respectively. The lowest percentage was reported in Thy-Kar (8 %). It was found that Echovirus type 11 responsible for 50 % (20 case infected with this type of virus) of infection with Echovirus and this percentage was declined for the following virus, Echovirus 1 (20 %), Echovirus 3 (17.5%), Echovirus 22 (7.7%) and Echovirus 5 (5 %).

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      Published

      2013-02-13

      Issue

      Volume 1, Number 1 (2013)

      Section

      Research article

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      All articles in the World Journal of Experimental Biosciences are published under the terms of the Creative Commons  Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 

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      Razak H Eissa and Razak H Eissa trans. 2013. Outbreak of Echoviruses in middle and south Iraqi provinces. World Journal of Experimental Biosciences. 1, 1 (Feb. 2013), 1–4.

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