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. 2012 Dec;50(12):4111-3.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.01680-12. Epub 2012 Sep 26.

Human parechovirus in respiratory specimens from children in Kansas City, Missouri

Justin Sharp  1 , Jeremiah Bell, Christopher J Harrison, W Allan Nix, M Steven Oberste, Rangaraj Selvarangan
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Human parechovirus in respiratory specimens from children in Kansas City, Missouri

Justin Sharp et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2012 Dec.

Abstract

We detected a 3% prevalence rate for human parechovirus (HPeV) in 720 respiratory specimens collected from 637 children seen in our hospital in 2009. Fifteen of 20 were HPeV-3 and two were HPeV-1. Only nonspecific, modest respiratory symptoms were evident in patients with detectable HPeV in respiratory specimens. Seven patients had concurrent respiratory and central nervous system (CNS) HPeV-3 infection, suggesting a possible respiratory route of acquisition.

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Dendrogram of VP1 sequences from HPeV isolated from respiratory specimens in children from Kansas City and HPeV types 1 to 16. Evolutionary history was inferred using the neighbor-joining method. HPeV viral isolates are indicated by the country of origin: BAN, Bangladesh; BRA, Brazil; JPN, Japan; PAK, Pakistan; NET, Netherlands; USA, United States.
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