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Case Reports
. 2015 Apr-Jun;10(2):146-9.
doi: 10.4103/1817-1737.151437.

Clinical description of human bocavirus viremia in children with LRTI, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia

Dalal K Bubshait  1 , Waleed Hamad Albuali  1 , Abdullah A Yousef  1 , Obeid Elteifi Obeid  2 , Khaled R Alkharsah  3 , Manal Ismaeel Hassan  2 , Chittibabu Vatte  3 , Alhusain J Alzahrani  4 , Huda Bukhari  5
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Clinical description of human bocavirus viremia in children with LRTI, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia

Dalal K Bubshait et al. Ann Thorac Med. 2015 Apr-Jun.

Abstract

Human bocavirus (HBoV) is a major etiology of lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) in young children. We tested 149 patients admitted to King Fahd Hospital of the University with diagnosis of LRTI. Viremia caused by the different studied viruses was detected in 31.5% of the total cases by Real-time Polymerase chain reaction. We report five patients who were positive for HBoV in serum samples. Clinical presentation ranged from mild to severe disease as one of them required admission to intensive care unit. Wheezing was a striking feature in most of our patients, but fever was not a consistent finding.

Keywords: Viremia; children; saudi Arabia.

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