Genotypic diversity, circulation patterns, and co-detections among rhinoviruses in Queensland, 2001

Katherine E. Arden; Ristan M. Greer; Claire Y.T. Wang; Ian M. Mackay

We found nearly five times more co-detections in our study than were reported from among the first viral detections of those enrolled in a community birth cohort from Brisbane. 3, 27 EVs were observed to have an especially low proportion of co-detections in our 2001 sample. As reported in our earlier studies of populations from different years and Australian locations, we again observed that detection of an IFAV, EV, RV or RSV occurred with reduced likelihood of co-detection of any other virus in that patient's sample. 21, 29 There was a higher likelihood of co-detection among extracts positive for an AdV or MPV. Numbers were small for the other viruses. The accepted . CC-BY-ND 4.0 International license author/funder. It is made available under a The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not peer-reviewed) is the . https://doi.org/10.1101/334334 doi: bioRxiv preprint understanding of IFAV directly associated with severe illness was supported here by a low proportion of co-detections.