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Case Reports
. 2011 Aug 29:8:417.
doi: 10.1186/1743-422X-8-417.

Does human bocavirus infection depend on helper viruses? A challenging case report

Monika Streiter  1 , Monika Malecki, Aram Prokop, Verena Schildgen, Jessica Lüsebrink, Andreas Guggemos, Matthias Wisskirchen, Michael Weiss, Reinhold Cremer, Michael Brockmann, Oliver Schildgen
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Does human bocavirus infection depend on helper viruses? A challenging case report

Monika Streiter et al. Virol J. .

Abstract

A case of severe diarrhoea associated with synergistic human bocavirus type 1 (HBoV) and human herpes virus type 6 (HHV6) is reported. The case supports the hypotheses that HBoV infection under clinical conditions may depend on helper viruses, or that HBoV replicates by a mechanism that is atypical for parvoviruses, or that HBoV infection can be specifically treated with cidofovir.

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