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Human bocavirus infections in hospitalized Greek children
INTRODUCTION: The epidemiology of human bocavirus (HBoV) infections has not been described in Greece, a south-eastern European country. To define the epidemiological profile and the clinical characteristics associated with HBoV infection in a population of children hospitalized with respiratory trac...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3278951/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22371728 http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/aoms.2010.13515 |
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author | Haidopoulou, Katerina Goutaki, Myrofora Damianidou, Lambrini Eboriadou, Maria Antoniadis, Antonis Papa, Anna |
author_facet | Haidopoulou, Katerina Goutaki, Myrofora Damianidou, Lambrini Eboriadou, Maria Antoniadis, Antonis Papa, Anna |
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description | INTRODUCTION: The epidemiology of human bocavirus (HBoV) infections has not been described in Greece, a south-eastern European country. To define the epidemiological profile and the clinical characteristics associated with HBoV infection in a population of children hospitalized with respiratory tract infection. MATERIAL AND METHODS: During a one-year period throat swab samples were collected from 370 previously healthy children, aged 14 days to 13 years, admitted to two different paediatric wards because of respiratory tract infection. Samples were tested for HBoV by PCR amplifying a part of the NS1 gene. RESULTS: Human bocavirus was detected in 12 children (3.2%). Four of the 12 cases were co-infections, 3 of them with influenza A and 1 with coronavirus OC43. Cases were observed only during the cold months. The mean age of children was 1.8 years (range 2 months to 4 years). The most common symptoms were fever, cough and various degrees of respiratory distress. All children were clinically diagnosed as having lower respiratory tract infections, mainly pneumonia and acute laryngotracheobronchitis, and recovered uneventfully. CONCLUSIONS: HBoV infections occur in Greece mostly among very young children. They accounted for 3.2% of children hospitalized with acute respiratory disease. Cases were observed only in late autumn to early spring. |
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spelling | pubmed-32789512012-02-27 Human bocavirus infections in hospitalized Greek children Haidopoulou, Katerina Goutaki, Myrofora Damianidou, Lambrini Eboriadou, Maria Antoniadis, Antonis Papa, Anna Arch Med Sci Research Paper INTRODUCTION: The epidemiology of human bocavirus (HBoV) infections has not been described in Greece, a south-eastern European country. To define the epidemiological profile and the clinical characteristics associated with HBoV infection in a population of children hospitalized with respiratory tract infection. MATERIAL AND METHODS: During a one-year period throat swab samples were collected from 370 previously healthy children, aged 14 days to 13 years, admitted to two different paediatric wards because of respiratory tract infection. Samples were tested for HBoV by PCR amplifying a part of the NS1 gene. RESULTS: Human bocavirus was detected in 12 children (3.2%). Four of the 12 cases were co-infections, 3 of them with influenza A and 1 with coronavirus OC43. Cases were observed only during the cold months. The mean age of children was 1.8 years (range 2 months to 4 years). The most common symptoms were fever, cough and various degrees of respiratory distress. All children were clinically diagnosed as having lower respiratory tract infections, mainly pneumonia and acute laryngotracheobronchitis, and recovered uneventfully. CONCLUSIONS: HBoV infections occur in Greece mostly among very young children. They accounted for 3.2% of children hospitalized with acute respiratory disease. Cases were observed only in late autumn to early spring. Termedia Publishing House 2010-03-09 2010-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3278951/ /pubmed/22371728 http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/aoms.2010.13515 Text en Copyright © 2010 Termedia & Banach http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Paper Haidopoulou, Katerina Goutaki, Myrofora Damianidou, Lambrini Eboriadou, Maria Antoniadis, Antonis Papa, Anna Human bocavirus infections in hospitalized Greek children |
title | Human bocavirus infections in hospitalized Greek children |
title_full | Human bocavirus infections in hospitalized Greek children |
title_fullStr | Human bocavirus infections in hospitalized Greek children |
title_full_unstemmed | Human bocavirus infections in hospitalized Greek children |
title_short | Human bocavirus infections in hospitalized Greek children |
title_sort | human bocavirus infections in hospitalized greek children |
topic | Research Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3278951/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22371728 http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/aoms.2010.13515 |
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