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Isolation, propagation, genome analysis and epidemiology of HKU1 betacoronaviruses.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Apr 2014
Dominguez Samuel R, Shrivastava Susmita, Berglund Andrew, Qian Zhaohui, Góes Luiz Gustavo Bentim, Halpin Rebecca A, Fedorova Nadia, Ransier Amy, Weston Philip A, Durigon Edison Luiz, Jerez José Antonio, Robinson Christine C, Town Christopher D, Holmes Kathryn V
Abstract excerpt
From 1 January 2009 to 31 May 2013, 15 287 respiratory specimens submitted to the Clinical Virology Laboratory at the Children's Hospital Colorado were tested for human coronavirus RNA by reverse transcription-PCR. Human coronaviruses HKU1, OC43, 229E and NL63 co-circulated during each of the respiratory seasons but with significant year-to-year variability, and cumulatively accounted for 7.4-15.6 % of all...
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