Outbreak of Echoviruses in middle and south Iraqi provinces

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  • 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 (January 2013) (5 articles)

    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) ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/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 tran. 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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