High Prevalence of Coinfecting Enteropathogens in Suspected Rotavirus Vaccine Breakthrough Cases

Despite the global use of rotavirus vaccines, vaccine breakthrough cases remain a pediatric health problem. In this study, we investigated suspected rotavirus vaccine breakthrough cases using next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based viral metagenomics (n = 102) and a panel of semiquantitative reverse transcription-PCR (RT-qPCR) (n = 92) targeting known enteric pathogens. Overall, we identified coinfections in 80% of the cases. Enteropathogens such as adenovirus (32%), enterovirus (15%), diarrheagenic Escherichia coli (1 to 14%), astrovirus (10%), Blastocystis spp. (10%), parechovirus (9%), norovirus (9%), Clostridioides (formerly Clostridium) difficile (9%), Dientamoeba fragilis (9%), sapovirus (8%), Campylobacter jejuni (4%), and Giardia lamblia (4%) were detected. Except for a few reassortant rotavirus strains, unusual genotypes or genotype combinations were not present. However, in addition to well-known enteric viruses, divergent variants of enteroviruses and nonclassic astroviruses were identified using NGS. We estimated that in 31.5% of the patients, rotavirus was likely not the cause of gastroenteritis, and in 14.1% of the patients, it contributed together with another pathogen(s) to disease. The remaining 54.4% of the patients likely had a true vaccine breakthrough infection. The high prevalence of alternative enteropathogens in the suspected rotavirus vaccine breakthrough cases suggests that gastroenteritis is often the result of a coinfection and that rotavirus vaccine effectiveness might be underestimated in clinical and epidemiological studies.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:59

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Journal of clinical microbiology - 59(2021), 12 vom: 18. Nov., Seite e0123621

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Simsek, Ceren [VerfasserIn]
Bloemen, Mandy [VerfasserIn]
Jansen, Daan [VerfasserIn]
Beller, Leen [VerfasserIn]
Descheemaeker, Patrick [VerfasserIn]
Reynders, Marijke [VerfasserIn]
Van Ranst, Marc [VerfasserIn]
Matthijnssens, Jelle [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Enteric coinfections
Gastroenteritis
Journal Article
NGS
RT-qPCR
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Rotavirus
Rotavirus Vaccines
Vaccine breakthrough

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Date Completed 03.12.2021

Date Revised 04.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1128/JCM.01236-21

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM331283964