TABLE 3.
Distribution by city of enteroviruses isolated from sewage samples in Italy (2005 to 2008)
| EV serotypea | No. of samples by region and city |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North (n = 273) |
Central (n = 113) |
South (n = 362) |
Total | |||||
| Milan | Parma | Rome | Sassari | Naples | Palermo | Bari | ||
| CAV 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| CVB 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 19 |
| CVB 2 | 10 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 19 | 70 |
| CVB 3 | 10 | 27 | 4 | 4 | 25 | 37 | 27 | 134 |
| CVB 4 | 1 | 30 | 4 | 13 | 30 | 5 | 8 | 90 |
| CVB 5 | 22 | 32 | 27 | 15 | 8 | 20 | 10 | 134 |
| Echo 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Echo 4 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 11 | 49 |
| Echo 6 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 13 | 96 |
| Echo 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 9 |
| Echo 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Echo 11 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 36 | 11 | 34 | 110 |
| Echo 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Echo 13 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 11 |
| Echo 19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Echo 22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Echo 25 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Echo 29 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Echo 30 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| PV | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Total | 161 | 112 | 45 | 68 | 127 | 100 | 135 | 748 |
a
CAV, coxsackievirus A; CVB, coxsackievirus B; Echo, echovirus; PV, poliovirus.