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Human Metapneumovirus Infection in Thai Children
1 Oct 2003
Abstract excerpt
Human metapneumovirus (hMPV) associated with clinical respiratory tract infection (RTI) in children was first isolated in The Netherlands. Of 120 Thai paediatric patients with RTI examined, 5 cases (4.2%) showed detectable hMPV based on N-gene-specific RT-PCR. All of them were negative for hRSV infection. Aligning the sequences with a reference strain revealed some nucleotide differences, which necessitates...
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