作者: Wanida Thanasugarn , Rujipat Samransamruajkit , Pijitra Vanapongtipagorn , Nuanchan Prapphal , Bernadette Van Den Hoogen
DOI: 10.1080/00365540310000094
关键词: Human metapneumovirus infection 、 Genotype 、 Immunology 、 Clinical significance 、 Human metapneumovirus 、 Typing 、 Respiratory tract 、 Biology 、 El Niño 、 Polymerase chain reaction
摘要: Human metapneumovirus (hMPV) associated with clinical respiratory tract infection (RTI) in children was first isolated the Netherlands. Of 120 Thai paediatric patients RTI examined, 5 cases (4.2%) showed detectable hMPV based on N-gene-specific RT-PCR. All of them were negative for hRSV infection. Aligning sequences a reference strain revealed some nucleotide differences, which necessitates future investigation to evaluate significance and genotype variation.