Related Articles A French oyster-related gastroenteritis outbreak: Aichi virus, norovirus, astrovirus, enterovirus and rotavirus all involved in clinical cases. J Clin Microbiol. 2008 Oct 8; Authors: Le Guyader FS, Le Saux JC, Ambert-Balay K, Krol J, Serais O, Parnaudeau S, Giraudon H, Delmas G, Pommepuy M, Pothier P, Atmar RL Following a flooding event close to a shellfish production lagoon, 205 cases of gastroenteritis were linked to oyster consumption. Twelve stool samples from different individuals were collected. Analysis showed that eight samples were positive for multiple enteric viruses and one stool had seven different enteric viruses. Analysis of shellfish implicated in the outbreak allowed the detection of the same diversity of enteric viruses; with some viral genomic sequences detected being identical to those obtained from stool sample analysis. Shellfish were contaminated by as many as five different enteric viruses. For the first time in Europe, Aichi virus was identified to be present in oyster samples. Shellfish samples collected over the three weeks following the outbreak showed a progressive decline in the level of virus contamination as measured by virus diversity detected and by quantitative RT-PCR. PMID: 18842942 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] ...
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