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| Ghietto,Lucía María; Cámara,Alicia; Zhou,Yumei; Pedranti,Mauro; Ferreyra,Silvia; Frey,Teryl; Cámara,Jorge; Adamo,Maria Pilar. |
| Human bocavirus (HBoV) is a parvovirus whose association with respiratory disease is currently under investigation. OBJECTIVE: To determine HBoV prevalence in children with lower acute respiratory infection. METHODS: We investigated HBoV in 433 nasopharyngeal aspirates collected in 2007-2009 from children 0 to 5 years old hospitalized with bronchiolitis or pneumonia in Córdoba, Argentina. RESULTS: The general prevalence of HBoV was 21.5% and the positive cases (HBoV+) were more frequent during winter and spring. The mean age of HBoV+ patients was 6.9 months, with 87.1% of the detections corresponding to infants less than 1 year old (among which the prevalence of HBoV was 26.3% in patients < 3 months of age, 22.1% in 3 to 6 months, 25.3% in 6 to 9... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Human bocavirus 1; Infant; Bronchiolitis; Pneumonia. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702012000100007 |
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