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Article: Human metapneumovirus infections in children.(RESEARCH)
- Article from:
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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Human metapneumovirus (hMPV) is an important cause of lower respiratory tract infections in hospitalized children, but the age-related incidence and effect of hMPV in unselected children in the community have not been evaluated. We studied a cohort of 1,338 children
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Human metapneumovirus (hMPV) was isolated in 2001 by van den Hoogen et al. in previously virus-negative nasopharyngeal aspirates from children with respiratory tract infections (1). Since then, hMPV has been identified wordwide (2-9). In temperate regions, hMPV circulates mainly during the winter (6,7,10-12). Clinical symptoms of hMPV infection resemble those caused by respiratory syncytial ...