id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-354143-p2ofapbd Hellferscee, Orienka Enterovirus genotypes among patients with severe acute respiratory illness, influenza‐like illness, and asymptomatic individuals in South Africa, 2012‐2014 2017-07-06 .txt text/plain 2936 169 48 Enteroviruses can cause outbreaks of severe acute respiratory illness (SARI) and EV‐A, ‐B, ‐C, and ‐D species have different pathogenic profiles and circulation patterns. We observed a high number of enterovirus genotypes in patients with respiratory illness and in controls from South Africa with no disease association of EV species with disease severity. We identified high diversity among EVs circulating in hospitalized South African patients, 25 however it is unknown whether different EV genotypes are associated with mild or severe respiratory illness in South Africa. Unconditional exact logistic regression was used to assess the association of EV species with disease severity among patients with mild (ILI) or severe illness (SARI) using asymptomatic individuals as control group. 9, 31 The E30 strains identified in this study clustered together (designated genotype k) although no differences were observed between viruses from SARI compared to ILI cases. ./cache/cord-354143-p2ofapbd.txt ./txt/cord-354143-p2ofapbd.txt