Detection of human bocavirus in Japanese children with lower respiratory tract infections.

ABSTRACT: Human bocavirus (HBoV), a newly cloned human virus of the genus Bocavirus, was detected by PCR from nasopharyngeal swab samples (8 of 318; 5.7%) collected from children with lower respiratory tract infections. HBoV may be one of the causative agents of lower respiratory tract infections in young children.

SUBMITTER: Ma X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1393160 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature