| Literature DB >> 15494270 |
Oliver Schildgen1, Tilman Geikowski, Thomas Glatzel, Arne Simon, Anja Wilkesmann, Michael Roggendorf, Sergei Viazov, Bertfried Matz.
Abstract
Recently, an increasing number of studies demonstrated that the human metapneumovirus (HMPV) causes mild to severe respiratory infections in children and immunosuppressed adults, and may be a frequent but somewhat undervalued pathogen. Here, we report the detection of a new variant of HMPV that is not closely related to the HMPV strains described until now. The strain was detected in a 6.5-year-old girl with an acute and severe exacerbation of asthma bronchiale triggered by an infection with a newly detected HMPV variant. The presented data provide new information on genetic heterogeneity of HMPV and necessitate an optimization of diagnostic procedures for the detection of HMPV infection.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID： 15494270 DOI： 10.1016/j.jcv.2004.06.007
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Virol ISSN： 1386-6532 Impact factor: 3.168