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Volume 21, Number 11—November 2015
Research

Role of Maternal Antibodies in Infants with Severe Diseases Related to Human Parechovirus Type 31

Yuta Aizawa, Kanako Watanabe, Tomohiro Oishi, Harunobu Hirano, Isao Hasegawa, and Akihiko SaitohComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan (Y. Aizawa, T. Oishi, A. Saitoh); Niigata University Graduate School of Health Sciences, Niigata (K. Watanabe); Saiseikai Niigata Daini Hospital, Niigata (H. Hirano, I. Hasegawa); University of California San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, California, USA (A. Saitoh)

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Table 1

Numbers and rates of seropositivity to HPeV types 1, 3, and 6 in cord blood samples from healthy full-term infants, by maternal age, Niigata, Japan, September 2013–January 2014*

HPeV type
 Maternal age, no. (%) samples
All ages, n = 175†
 16–24 y, n = 11
 25–34 y, n = 107
 35–44 y, n = 57
HPeV1 113 (65) 6 (55) 75 (70) 32 (56)
HPeV3 107 (61) 11 (100) 68 (64) 28 (49)
HPeV6 125 (71) 8 (73) 69 (64) 48 (84)

*HPeV, human parechovirus. A cutoff of 1:32 was used for HPeV1, 3, and 6.
†Antibody positivity rates compared among the 3 genotypes; p = 0.12.

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1Presented in part at IDWeek, October 8–12, 2014, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

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