Assessment of Enteroviruses from Sewage Water and Clinical Samples During Eradication Phase of Polio in North India Sarika Tiwari1,2* and Tapan N
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Tiwari and Dhole Virology Journal (2018) 15:157 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12985-018-1075-7 RESEARCH Open Access Assessment of enteroviruses from sewage water and clinical samples during eradication phase of polio in North India Sarika Tiwari1,2* and Tapan N. Dhole1 Abstract Background: The Enterovirus (EV) surveillance system is inadequate in densely populated cities in India. EV can be shed in feces for several weeks; these viruses are not easily inactivated and may persist in sewage for long periods. Surveillance and epidemiological study of EV-related disease is necessary. Methods: In this study, we compare the EV found in sewage with clinically isolated samples. Tissue culture was used for isolation of the virus and serotype confirmed by enterovirus neutralization tests. Results: We found positive cases for enterovirus from clinical and sewage samples and identified additional isolates as echovirus 9, 11, 25 & 30 by sequencing. Conclusion: There is a close relation among the serotypes of enterovirus shed in stools and isolated from the environment but few serotypes which were detected in sewage samples were not found clinically and the few which were detected clinically not found in sewage because some viruses are difficult to detect by the cell culture method.This study will be helpful for the researchers who are working on polio and nonpolio enterovirus especially in the countries which are struggling for polio eradication. Keywords: Acute flaccid paralysis, Environmental surveillance, Phylogenetic analysis, Sewage water Background than 100 serotypes have been identified [3] including more Enterovirus can be transported in the environment than 70 enterovirus serotypes have been identified in through groundwater, estuarine water, seawater, rivers, humans [4]. EV may cause various symptoms, varying aerosols emitted from sewage treatment plants, insuffi- from asymptomatic infection to gastroenteritis, myocarditis ciently treated water, drinking water, and private wells that and aseptic meningitis [5]. Human echovirus and coxsack- receive treated or untreated waste water either directly or ievirus display a changing pattern of dominant serotypes in indirectly. These viruses are usually transmitted via the both sewage and clinical isolates, Echovirus 6, 19, 3, and fecal-oral route and primarily infect and replicate in the coxsackievirus B4, B5, A9 have successively became the gastrointestinal tract of the host [1]. In addition to causing most common serotypes [6]. In the environment, entero- acute diseases, EV are of public health concern because of virus can survive under a wide pH range (pH 3 to 10) and the low infectious dose needed to cause disease [2]. for extended periods at low temperature [7]. Some of the Enterovirus is nonenveloped, single-stranded, EV have been isolated from sewage water, which were cox- positive-sense viruses belonging to the family Picornaviri- sackievirus types B-3, B-4, and B-5 and E1, E7, and E11 [8]. dae. They include poliovirus, coxsackievirus (CB) groups A Interestingly, these isolations are related to reports of isola- and B, echoviruses (E), and the enterovirus. Till date, more tion of the same strains during the same period in clinical samples. In general, enterovirus show great potential to be * Correspondence: [email protected] used as water quality indicators to assess the risks associ- 1Department of Microbiology (Virology Section), Sanjay Gandhi Post ated with infectious virus transmission as well as to identify Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS), Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226014, India the dominant source of fecal contamination in water [8]. 2Department of Microbiology (Virology lab), Rajendra Institute of Medical Assessment of enterovirus plays an important role in Sciences (RIMS), Ranchi, JH, India © The Author(s). 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. Tiwari and Dhole Virology Journal (2018) 15:157 Page 2 of 8 exploring the circulation of these viruses in the commu- methods, including direct isolation, centrifugation and nity. Earlier studies from 1974 to 1977 in U.K., 1979–1981 two phase separation, and results of their study suggest in Canada, from 1994 to 2002 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that the two phase separation method is the best for max- USA, and 2000–2007 in Finland [6, 8–10]comparingsew- imum virus yield [13]. age and clinical EVs reported and demonstrated a similarity of clinical and sewage EV. Environmental surveillance Stool sample processing should be considered a complementary assessment tool to Stool sample processing was performed according to trace prevalent and negligible enterovirus circulating in the WHO protocol. In brief, Stool suspensions were pre- human population. pared by adding 5 ml of phosphate-buffered saline, 1 g of glass beads (Corning Inc., Corning, NY), antibiotics Methods (Penicillin and streptomycin, amphotericin B from Sewage sample collection GIBCO, USA). 1 ml chloroform (LAB CHEM) to 1 g of Sewage sample (approx one liter) was collected and stool samples, shaked the mixture vigorously for 20 min stored in sterile glass bottle from the collection site by in a mechanical shaker, and centrifuged at 1500 x g for directly dipping into the sewage effluent. The outer sur- 30 min at 4 °C [14]. Supernatant was kept at − 20 °C face of the bottle was rinsed with 2% sodium hypo chlor- until the inoculation on cell monolayer. ide solution, placed in a cool box, and transported to the laboratory within 1 h after collection from sewage treat- Cell culture ment plant, Daulatganz Lucknow, U.P., India (which was Human rhabdomyosarcoma (RD) and L20B (transgenic) almost 25 km. away from the institute, covers entire cells were obtained from the Center for Disease Control north, west and central zone of Lucknow city). It covers and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA. Minimum essential a population of approximately 10, 00,000 and is the main media (MEM) of Earle’s salt solution and fetal bovine serum sewage treatment plant of the area. The bottle was fro- (FBS) were purchased from (Sigma Aldrich, USA). All cell zen at − 20° c, until the process of virus isolation. culture media contained HEPES buffer, L-glutamine, so- dium bicarbonate penicillin, streptomycin, amphotericin B Clinical sample collection fromGIBCO,USA.Cellculturesweregrownat37°Cinin- Stool samples were collected from suspected AFP (Acute cubators with supply of 5% CO2. Cell cultures for virus iso- Flaccid Paralysis) patients from Sanjay Gandhi Post lation were grown in 25cm2 plastic flasks (Costar, Corning, Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (clinical samples N.Y.) with 10% FBS (MEM) and maintained at 2% FBS come from north, west and central zone of Lucknow (MEM) containing 7 ml MEM, and tissue culture tube with city), Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. 1.5 ml (2% FBS). Sewage sample processing Inoculation of sewage samples Sewage samples were processed for virus isolation as soon The extracted concentrate was inoculated on fresh as they were received in the laboratory. The sewage sam- monolayer cultures of L20B and RD cells in 50 ml ple was concentrated by two-phase concentration method (25 cm2) flasks. The cultured flasks were incubated at on the same day as described previously [11]. In brief, the 37 °C and examined at every 24 h for cytopathic effect pH of the sample was adjusted to 7.2 and the sample was (CPE). Samples which showed CPE were frozen and centrifuged at 5000 g for 30 min at 4 °C to pellet the thawed two times, then re-passaged on new cells. Sam- solids. 500 ml of clarified sewage was mixed with defined ples were observed for CPE up to 7 days before being amounts of two polymers, dextran and 15% polyethylene considered negative. Samples showed CPE were stored glycol (15% PEG6000). The homogenous mixture ob- for confirmation through serotyping. tained by vigorous shaking is left to stand overnight at 4 ° C in a separating funnel. This allows the polymers to sep- Inoculation of stool samples arate in two distinct layers (phases) in the funnel. Entero- The supernatant (0.2 ml each) of stool suspension were virus accumulates in the smaller bottom layer and/or at inoculated in both RD and L20B cell lines (90% mono- the boundary between the layers (interphase). The bottom layer with maintenance medium.). The cells after inocu- layer and interphase were collected drop-wise. The pellet lation were incubated at 36 °C and observed under an from the initial centrifugation was suspended in this con- inverted microscope every day up to 1 week. Further- centration, and treated with chloroform, then centrifuged more, re-passaged cultures were analyzed for 1 week. at 5000 g for 30 min at 4 °C and assayed for the presence Negative cultures were examined at least for 14 days be- of virus. The concentrated virus suspension was stored at fore being discarded. The cultures positive for virus − 20 °C until used for virus isolation [12]. This method growth (showed + 3 CPE, i.e. 75% lysed cells) were was published in a study which compared three different stored at − 20 °C for further analysis. Tiwari and Dhole Virology Journal (2018) 15:157 Page 3 of 8 Identification of enteroviruses AGTAGTCGGTTCC 3′ E-2(Antisense)– 5′-TCCG Samples showed CPE in both L20B and RD were consid- GCCCCTGAATGCGGCTAATCC 3′) were used [19]. ered as positive for the polio virus (PV) [15, 16]. How- Buffer containing 100 mM Tris-HCl, 15 mM MgCl2, 500 ever, some of the non-polio enteroviruses (NPEV) were mMKCl, pH 8.3 and 1 μl of diluted samples was added those that showed CPE only in RD cells.