Human metapneumovirus-associated lower respiratory tract infections in korean infants and young children

Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2005 Dec;24(12):1111-2. doi: 10.1097/01.inf.0000190042.65120.23.

Abstract

To define the role of human metapneumovirus (hMPV) in previously healthy Korean children, a retrospective study was done on 166 children with lower respiratory tract infections and on their stored nasal aspirates. The hMPV gene was detected by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction. Twenty-six of 166 individuals tested positive for hMPV. The clinical diagnoses of hMPV infection were pneumonia in 15 children and bronchiolitis in 11 children.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Bronchiolitis, Viral / epidemiology*
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Korea / epidemiology
  • Male
  • Metapneumovirus / genetics
  • Metapneumovirus / isolation & purification*
  • Paramyxoviridae Infections / epidemiology*
  • Paramyxoviridae Infections / virology
  • Phylogeny
  • Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
  • Pneumonia, Viral / virology
  • Respiratory Tract Infections / epidemiology
  • Respiratory Tract Infections / virology
  • Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Seasons