Clinical and Epidemiologic Characterization of WU Polyomavirus Infection, St. Louis, Missouri

WU polyomavirus is a recently described polyomavirus found in patients with respiratory infections. Of 2,637 respiratory samples tested in St. Louis, Missouri, 2.7% were positive for WU polyomavirus by PCR, and 71% were coinfected with other respiratory viruses. Persistent human infection with WU po...

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Autores principales: Le, Binh-Minh, Demertzis, Lee M., Wu, Guang, Tibbets, Robert J., Buller, Richard, Arens, Max Q., Gaynor, Anne M., Storch, Gregory A., Wang, David
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2007
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Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2876771/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18258052
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1312.070977
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Sumario:WU polyomavirus is a recently described polyomavirus found in patients with respiratory infections. Of 2,637 respiratory samples tested in St. Louis, Missouri, 2.7% were positive for WU polyomavirus by PCR, and 71% were coinfected with other respiratory viruses. Persistent human infection with WU polyomavirus is described.

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