“…Human adenoviruses (HAdV) are associated in humans with a broad spectrum of clinical diseases, such as acute respiratory disease (ARD), community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), as well as conjunctivitis, gastrointestinal, opportunistic infections in immune-deficient individuals, and possibly, obesity ( Dingle and Langmuir , 1968 ; Chu and Pavan-Langston, 1979 ; Wood, 1988 ; Dhurandhar et al, 1992 ; Kojaoghlanian et al, 2003 ; Hakim and Tleyjeh, 2008 ). Since the first HAdV isolate was found in 1953 ( Hilleman et al, 1953 ; Rowe et al, 1953 ), more than 80 HAdV genotypes have been identified and classified into seven species (A to G) using the whole-genome sequence as the typing standard 1 ( Jones et al, 2007 ; Ishiko et al, 2008 ; Walsh et al, 2009 , 2010 , 2011 ; Liu et al, 2011 , 2012 ; Matsushima et al, 2011 , 2012 , 2013 ; Robinson et al, 2011 , 2013b ; Seto et al, 2011 ; Dehghan et al, 2012 ; Singh et al, 2012 , 2013 ; Zhou et al, 2012 ; Alissa Alkhalaf et al, 2014 ; Hage et al, 2015 ; Hashimoto et al, 2018 ). HAdV species B are further divided into subspecies B1 (HAdV-B3, -B7, -B16, -B21, and -B50) and B2 (HAdV-B11, -B14, -B34, -B35, and -B55) according to their restriction enzyme digestion patterns ( Wadell et al, 1980 ).…”