Detection and phylogenetic tree analysis of human parainfluenza virus type 3 in children with acute respiratory tract infection from a hospital in Shanghai / 中华传染病杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To understand the epidemiologic feature of human parainfluenza virus type 3 (HPIV-3) in Shanghai,and to provide scientific evidence for formulating prevention and control measures in the future.Methods A total of 164 nasopharyngeal aspirates samples taken from children with acute respiratory infection (ARI) were collected from Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University and sent to Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center from June 2009 to June 2010.Samples were detected for HPIV-3 by reversed transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR).Full-length hemagglutininneuraminidase (HN) gene (1 719 bp) of five positive samples were sequenced for phylogenetic analysis.Comparison between two groups was evaluated by the precise chi-square test (two sided).Results Of 164 samples,70 samples were infected with parainfluenza virus,and HPIV-3 was detected positive in 23 samples with the positive rate of 32.86％.HPIV-3 infections were most common in spring and summer,and most of infections were mainly found in 13-36 month-old infants.Five Shanghai isolates and 36 reference sequences from different countries and areas were divided by HN gene-based phylogenetic tree into three clusters (A,B and C).Five Shanghai isolates and five Beijing isolates belonged to C3a group.The homologies of nucleotide and amino acid sequences between five Shanghai isolates and five Beijing isolates were 99.0％-99.5％ and 99.7％-100.0％,respectively.Conclusions HPIV-3 accounts for a high proportion in children with ARI in Shanghai.C3a group may be the main lineage of HPIV-3,which suggests that HPIV-3 may be of regionally correlation.