High Prevalence of Human Bocavirus Detected in Young Children with Severe Acute Lower Respiratory Tract Disease by Use of a Standard PCR Protocol and a Novel Real-Time PCR Protocol
- 1 March 2007
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 45 (3) , 1032-1034
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.01884-06
Abstract
The human bocavirus (HBoV) was recently isolated from respiratory tract samples. Within a study collective of children with severe lower respiratory tract disease, the patients testing positive for HBoV (12.8%) had a higher rate of underlying cardiopulmonary disease. Viral loads in respiratory tract specimens varied from 10 2 to 10 10 genome equivalents/ml.Keywords
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