Seroprevalence of Jamestown Canyon virus in the Japanese general population
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RESEARCH ARTICLE
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Seroprevalence of Jamestown Canyon virus in the Japanese general population Hirofumi Kato1, Masaaki Satoh1, Madoka Kawahara1, Satoshi Kitaura1, Tomoki Yoshikawa1, Shuetsu Fukushi1, Kristina Dimitrova2, Heidi Wood2, Masayuki Saijo1 and Mutsuyo Takayama-Ito1*
Abstract Background: Jamestown Canyon virus (JCV) is a mosquito-borne orthobunyavirus that causes acute febrile illness, meningitis, and meningoencephalitis, mainly among adults. JCV is widely distributed in North America and the number of JCV cases in the U.S. has increased in recent years. Therefore, the central nervous system disease caused by JCV can be considered a potentially re-emerging viral disease. However, the seroprevalence of JCV is unknown in Japan. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the seroprevalence of JCV in the Japanese population. Methods: We used an IgG enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (IgG-ELISA) with JCV-infected cell-lysates and/or a neutralizing (NT) antibody assay. The cut-off value of IgG-ELISA was determined using IgG-ELISA to analyze serum specimens from 37 healthy Japanese donors. IgG-ELISA was validated by assessing its sensitivity and specificity, using 38 human serum samples previously tested for the presence or absence of antibodies against JCV and snowshoe hare virus (SSHV), in an in-house NT antibody assay conducted by the Public Health Agency of Canada. The seroepidemiological study was performed using IgG-ELISA and NT antibody assay to analyze 246 human serum samples from the serum bank of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) in Japan. Results: The cut-off value of IgG-ELISA was determined at 0.20, based on the mean (− 0.075) and standard deviation (0.092) values using Japanese donors’ sera. The sensitivity and the specificity of IgG-ELISA determined using 25 JCV-positive and 4 JCV-negative serum samples were 96 and 100%, respectively. Analysis of the 246 Japanese serum samples revealed that no specimen showed a higher value than the cut-off value of IgG-ELISA, and no sample tested positive by the NT antibody assay. Conclusions: Our results showed that JCV is not circulating significantly in Japan. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report to demonstrate the seroprevalence of JCV in the general population in Japan. Keywords: Jamestown canyon virus, Snowshoe hare virus, California serogroup, Seroepidemiology, Orthobunyavirus, Encephalitis, Japan
Background Jamestown Canyon virus (JCV) belongs to the genus Orthobunyavirus in the family Peribunyaviridae of the order Bunyavirales [1]. JCV causes acute febrile illness and sometimes central nervous infections such as * Correspondence: [email protected] 1 Department of Virology 1, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, 1-23-1 Toyama, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8640, Japan Full list of author information is available at the end of the article
meningitis and meningoencephalitis, mainly among adults [2, 3]. JCV is classified into the California serogroup (CSG), along with La Crosse virus (LACV), snowshoe hare viru
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