1. Novel human metapneumovirus sublineage
- Author
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Wolfram Puppe, Dieter Neumann-Haefelin, Valeria Falcone, J. A. I. Weigl, Gesa Scharf, and Barbara Huck
- Subjects
Microbiology (medical) ,Time Factors ,Adolescent ,Epidemiology ,viruses ,Paramyxoviridae Infections ,lcsh:Medicine ,phylogeny ,lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases ,respiratory infections ,Human metapneumovirus ,Phylogenetics ,Germany ,Nasopharynx ,Medicine ,Humans ,Metapneumovirus ,lcsh:RC109-216 ,Child ,Molecular Epidemiology ,human metapneumovirus ,Phylogenetic tree ,Molecular epidemiology ,biology ,business.industry ,Carrier state ,lcsh:R ,Dispatch ,HMPV ,virus diseases ,Genetic Variation ,Infant ,biology.organism_classification ,Virology ,respiratory tract diseases ,Infectious Diseases ,Child, Preschool ,Population Surveillance ,Carrier State ,business - Abstract
In a pediatric surveillance network, 287 (5.1%) of 5,580 specimens from patients with acute respiratory infections tested positive for human metapneumovirus (HMPV). Phylogenetic analysis of N- and F-gene sequences of identified HMPV showed that 30% belonged to a novel phylogenetic cluster.
- Published
- 2006