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High prevalence of human metapneumovirus infection in young children and genetic heterogeneity of the viral isolates.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jul 2003
Viazov S, Ratjen F, Scheidhauer R, Fiedler M, Roggendorf M
Abstract excerpt
RNA of the newly identified human metapneumovirus (HMPV) was detected in nasopharyngeal aspirates of 11 of 63 (17.5%) young children with respiratory tract disease. Markers of infection caused by another member of the Pneumovirinae subfamily of the family Paramyxoviridae, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), were identified in 15 of these patients (23.8%). Three patients were simultaneously infected with HMPV and...
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