Mumps virus outbreak related to a water pipe (narghile) shared smoking
Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin (Engl Ed). 2020 Oct 12:S0213-005X(20)30283-4.
doi: 10.1016/j.eimc.2020.08.015.
Online ahead of print.
[Article in
English,
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Affiliations
- 1 Unidad Técnica 8 del Área de Salud Pública, Dirección General de Salud Pública, Consejería de Sanidad Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, España. Electronic address: andres.aragon@salud.madrid.org.
- 2 Unidad Técnica 8 del Área de Salud Pública, Dirección General de Salud Pública, Consejería de Sanidad Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, España.
- 3 Laboratorio de Referencia e Investigación en Enfermedades Víricas Inmunoprevenibles, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, España; Consorcio de Investigación Biomédica de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, España.
- 4 Consorcio de Investigación Biomédica de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, España; Laboratorio Regional de Salud Pública de la Comunidad de Madrid, Dirección General de Salud Pública, Consejería de Sanidad Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, España.
Abstract
Introduction:
This study describes a mumps outbreak among a group of young people who shared a same narghile to smoking. Saliva and blood samples were obtained from 3cases for RT-PCR and serology respectively.
Methods:
The notification of a mumps case started an epidemiological investigation. Information of other 6additional symptomatic persons who had gathered with the case in a discotheque where they smoking in a same narghile was achieved. RT-PCR positive samples were genotyped by sequencing.
Results:
The 7patients resided in 3different municipalities, and they do not have get together for more than a month until the meeting in the discotheque. Four cases were confirmed by RT-PCR and/or IgM determinations. The genomic investigation showed identical nucleic sequences.
Conclusions:
This outbreak is consequence of the common use of a narghile to smoking. The public usage of these water pipes should be regulated.
Keywords:
Brote; Mumps virus; Narghile; Narguile; Outbreak; Virus parotiditis.
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