id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-311439-y9jwu38r Bao, Changjun Possible Spread of adenovirus type 3 from poultry to humans: indirect evidence from an outbreak in China 2007-09-30 .txt text/plain 4299 219 50 We describe an outbreak of acute respiratory infection due to adenovirus type 3 that occurred in one county of Jiangsu Province, China, during the period from April 18 th to July 4 th 2004. Pharyngeal swab specimens from children and adolescent patients who were diagnosed with acute upper respiratory tract infections at Township A health care hospital during the outbreak from April through July 2005 were cultured for adenovirus. An infection caused by adenovirus type 3 was verified by entire gene sequence testing to 10 Nested PCR amplification products of positive specimens (from nine patients) in the laboratory of the National CDC of China. Eighteen paired patient serums(acute and convalescent) were used to test neutralization titer with the isolate adenovirus type 3 viral strain simultaneously. This investigation demonstrated that acute respiratory infection caused by adenovirus type 3 caused the outbreak that occurred in over seventy schools in ten townships in 2004. ./cache/cord-311439-y9jwu38r.txt ./txt/cord-311439-y9jwu38r.txt