Detection of adenovirus type 4041 among children with diarrhea, in al-Najaf province, Iraq

Abstract EN

-Adenoviruses type 40/41 are from the most important etiologic agents in acute gastroenteritis of children.

The aim of this study was to detect of Adenovirus type 40/41 among children with diarrhea admitted to Al-Najaf province, in AL- Zahra teaching hospital for maternity and children and Al- Hakeem hospital, during the period extended from November, 2016 to February, 2017 including 90 stool specimen from children with diarrheal, their age range (from 6 to 48 months).

All stool specimen were subjected to rapid test specific of Adenovirus antigens using immunochromatographic assay, which showed prevalence of (21 cases 23.33 %).

The results showed the majority of infections with adenovirus were recorded among children age (6-30) months.

Five specimen (23.8 %) of 21 stool samples were detected by Real-time PCR technique .

The positive cases were higher among infants fed with artificial dry milk 18 cases (85.71 %) compared with infants fed with mother's milk 3 cases (14.28%).

All of the cases complained of watery or mucosal consistence stool , abdominal pain vomiting, and fever.

The results of this study showed that adenovirus is one of the main factors causing acute gastroenteritis in infants and children in developing countries.