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Human coronavirus NL63 is not detected in the respiratory tracts of children with acute Kawasaki disease.


ABSTRACT: Kawasaki disease (KD) is a self-limited, systemic vasculitis of children for which an infectious trigger is suspected. Recently, an association between KD and human coronavirus (HCoV)-New Haven (NH) was reported, on the basis of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with primers that also amplified HCoV-NL63. We investigated the possible association between these HCoVs in the respiratory tract and KD by reverse-transcriptase (RT) PCR and viral culture in a geographically and ethnically diverse population. Only 1 (2%) of 48 patients with acute KD was positive by RT-PCR for HCoV-NL63/NH in a nasopharyngeal swab. These data do not support an association between these HCoVs and KD.

SUBMITTER: Shimizu C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2888540 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Human coronavirus NL63 is not detected in the respiratory tracts of children with acute Kawasaki disease.

Shimizu Chisato C   Shike Hiroko H   Baker Susan C SC   Garcia Francesca F   van der Hoek Lia L   Kuijpers Taco W TW   Reed Sharon L SL   Rowley Anne H AH   Shulman Stanford T ST   Talbot Helen K B HK   Williams John V JV   Burns Jane C JC  

The Journal of infectious diseases 20051017 10


Kawasaki disease (KD) is a self-limited, systemic vasculitis of children for which an infectious trigger is suspected. Recently, an association between KD and human coronavirus (HCoV)-New Haven (NH) was reported, on the basis of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with primers that also amplified HCoV-NL63. We investigated the possible association between these HCoVs in the respiratory tract and KD by reverse-transcriptase (RT) PCR and viral culture in a geographically and ethnically diverse populat  ...[more]

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