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Absence of Detectable Replication of Human Bocavirus Species 2 in Respiratory Tract |
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| Authors: | Thaweesak Chieochansin Amit Kapoor Eric Delwart Yong Poovorawan Peter Simmonds |
| Affiliation: | Chulalongkorn University and Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand (T. Chieochansin, Y. Poovorawan), University of California, San Francisco, California, USA (A. Kapoor, E. Delwart);University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (P. Simmonds) |
| Abstract: | Human bocavirus (HBoV) commonly infects young children and is associated with respiratory disease; disease associations of the divergent HBoV-2 species are unknown. Frequent HBoV-2 detection in fecal samples indicated widespread circulation in the United Kingdom and Thailand, but its lack of detection among 6,524 respiratory samples indicates likely differences from HBoV-1 in tropism/pathogenesis. |
| Keywords: | Human bocavirus parvovirus PCR respiratory infections diagnosis diarrhea gastroenteritis viruses epidemiology enteric diseases dispatch |