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. 2006 Aug;12(8):1263-6.
doi: 10.3201/eid1708.051239.

Human metapneumovirus, Australia, 2001-2004

Theo P Sloots  1 , Ian M Mackay, Seweryn Bialasiewicz, Kevin C Jacob, Emily McQueen, Gerald B Harnett, David J Siebert, Brent I Masters, Paul R Young, Michael D Nissen
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Human metapneumovirus, Australia, 2001-2004

Theo P Sloots et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2006 Aug.

Abstract

We examined 10,025 respiratory samples collected for 4 years (2001-2004) and found a 7.1% average annual incidence of human metapneumovirus. The epidemic peak of infection was late winter to spring, and genotyping showed a change in predominant viral genotype in 3 of the 4 years.

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Figure 1
Seasonal incidence of human metapneumovirus, Queensland, Australia, 2001–2004. Su, summer (December–February); Au, autumn (March–May); W, winter (June–August); Sp, spring (September–November).
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Figure 2
Phylogenetic analysis of the 182-nucleotide fragment of the phosphoprotein gene fragment of human metapneumovirus detected in respiratory samples collected in Australia. Sequences of avian pneumovirus (APV) type C (GenBank accession nos. AF176590 and AF176591) were used as outgroups to root the tree. Nucleotide sequences were aligned by using BioEdit version 7.0.0 and were subjected to neighbor-joining analysis with MEGA version 3.0 with 500 random bootstraps. CAN and NC, Canada; JPS, Japan; NL00–1, the Netherlands; Q, Queensland, Australia.
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