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J Pediatr Infect Dis 2022; 17(01): 048-052
DOI: 10.1055/s-0041-1740372
Original Article

Investigation of Children with Acute Gastroenteritis by Multiplex PCR Method in Central Part of Turkey

Fatih Yılmaz 
2   Division of Medical Virology, Medical Microbiology Department, Meram Faculty of Medicine, Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, Turkey
,
Havva Kaya 
1   Medical Microbiology Department, Meram Faculty of Medicine, Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, Turkey
,
Mehmet Özdemir 
2   Division of Medical Virology, Medical Microbiology Department, Meram Faculty of Medicine, Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, Turkey
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Abstract

Objective Gastroenteritis is a disease that affects all age groups, especially children, and causes high mortality and morbidity in all countries. The most common agents of acute gastroenteritis are viral agents. As a result, millions of diarrhea attacks and hospital admissions occur worldwide every year due to viral gastroenteritis. This study uses the multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method to investigate the viruses that are the causative agents of viral gastroenteritis in the pediatric patient group in Konya, Turkey.

Methods Stool samples of 94 patients aged 0 to 18 years sent from Emergency clinics and Pediatric outpatient clinics, Meram Medical Faculty Hospital Pediatric clinics, Konya Necmettin Erbakan University to Medical Microbiology Laboratory with a diagnosis of gastroenteritis between February and December 2018 were included in the study. Stool samples were stored at –80°C until the time of the analysis. Deoxyribonucleic acid/ribonucleic acid isolation from stool samples was performed with EZ1 Virus Mini Kit v2.0 (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany) using an automatic extraction system (BioRobot EZ1 system, Qiagen). The presence of astrovirus, rotavirus, adenovirus, norovirus (GI, GII), and sapovirus agents was investigated by the multiplex PCR method (Fast Track Diagnostics, Luxembourg) viral gastroenteritis kit.

Results Viral gastroenteritis agents were detected in 56.3% of the patients. One viral agent was detected in 47 (50%) of these patients and at least two viral agents in 6 (6.3%) of them. Norovirus GII was detected in 20 (21.2%) of the children included in the study, adenovirus in 13 (13.8%), rotavirus in 11 (12.8%), astrovirus in 11 (11.7%), sapovirus in 4 (4.2%), and norovirus GI in 1 (1.06%). When the distribution of viral agents was examined by months, the most number of agents were observed (21; 35%) in May, followed by April and June (12; 20%). Considering the distribution of the prevalence of the agents by age, it was seen to be mainly between 0 and 12 months (42%).

Conclusion Considering that the most common viral agent in our region is norovirus GII, it will be useful to investigate the norovirus that is not routinely examined in children who are admitted to clinics with the complaint of gastroenteritis. It will be appropriate to examine routinely adenovirus, rotavirus, and norovirus in the laboratory, especially in children with diarrhea and vomiting in the winter and spring months.

Keywords

gastroenteritis - multiplex PCR - rotavirus - adenovirus - norovirus - sapovirus - astrovirus


Publication History

Received: 24 June 2021

Accepted: 19 October 2021

Article published online:
06 January 2022

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