Novel human parechovirus from Brazil.

ABSTRACT: Human parechoviruses (HPeVs) were detected by reverse transcription-PCR in 16.1% of 335 stool samples from children <6 years of age with enteritis in Salvador, Brazil. Whole genome sequencing of 1 sample showed a novel HPeV that has been designated as HPeV8.

SUBMITTER: Drexler JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2657636 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature