Novel Human Bocavirus in Children with Acute Respiratory Tract Infection

Abstract

Human bocavirus (HBoV) and HBoV2, two human bocavirus species, were found in 18 and 10 of 235 nasopharyngeal aspirates, respectively, from children hospitalized with acute respiratory tract infection. Our results suggest that, like HBoV, HBoV2 is distributed worldwide and may be associated with respiratory and enteric diseases.

Keywords

• Human bocavirus
• children
• acute respiratory tract infection
• viruses
• respiratory infections
• dispatch