Human Metapneumovirus in Severe Respiratory Syncytial Virus Bronchiolitis

Overview

Journal Emerg Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2003 Mar 20

PMID 12643835

Citations 143

Authors

Julie Greensill

Paul S McNamara

Winifred Dove

Brian Flanagan

Rosalind L Smyth

C Anthony Hart

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Abstract

Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction was used to detect segments of the M (matrix), N (nucleoprotein), and F (fusion) genes of human metapneumovirus in bronchoalveolar fluid from 30 infants with severe respiratory syncytial virus bronchiolitis. Seventy percent of them were coinfected with metapneumovirus. Such coinfection might be a factor influencing the severity of bronchiolitis.

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