Detection of Human Bocavirus in Japanese Children with Lower Respiratory Tract Infections

作者：Xiaoming Ma, Rika Endo, Nobuhisa Ishiguro, Takashi Ebihara, Hiroaki Ishiko, Tadashi Ariga, Hídeaki Kikuta · 发表于：Journal of Clinical Microbiology · 年份：2006 · DOI：10.1128/jcm.44.3.1132-1134.2006 · 被引用次数：233 · 研究领域：Respiratory viral infections research、Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology、Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections

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.