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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, November 2000, p. 5087-5091, Vol. 66, No. 11
0099-2240/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Assessment of Poliovirus Eradication in Japan: Genomic Analysis of Polioviruses Isolated from River Water and Sewage in Toyama Prefecture

Kumiko Matsuura,1,* Mitsuhiro Ishikura,1 Hiromu Yoshida,2 Takashi Nakayama,1 Sumiyo Hasegawa,1 Shuji Ando,1 Hitoshi Horie,3 Tatsuo Miyamura,2 and Takashi Kitamura1

Department of Virology, Toyama Institute of Health, Toyama 939-0363,1 and Laboratory of Enteroviruses, Department of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases,2 and Japan Poliomyelitis Research Institute,3 Tokyo, Japan

Received 17 May 2000/Accepted 29 August 2000

Seventy-eight poliovirus strains isolated from river water and sewage in Toyama Prefecture, Japan, during 1993 to 1995 were characterized by the PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) method and by partially sequencing the VP3 and VP1 regions of the viral genome. Of these isolates, 36 were identified as Sabin vaccine strains, and 42 were identified as vaccine variant strains that had less than 1.4% nucleotide divergence from the Sabin strains, including 7 isolates with patterns different from those of Sabin strains as determined by PCR-RFLP analysis. These findings suggest that wild-type poliovirus was not circulating in Toyama Prefecture.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Toyama Institute of Health, Nakataikoyama, Kosugi-machi, Imizu-gun, Toyama 939-0363, Japan. Phone: 81-766-56-5506. Fax: 81-766-56-7326. E-mail: Kumiko.matsuura{at}tak.pref.toyama.jp.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, November 2000, p. 5087-5091, Vol. 66, No. 11
0099-2240/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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