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Absence of detectable replication of human bocavirus species 2 in respiratory tract
Thaweesak Chieochansin1, Amit Kapoor, Eric Delwart
1Chulalongkorn University and Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand.
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|October 1, 2009
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.
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