Novel Human Metapneumovirus Sublineage

Abstract

In a pediatric surveillance network, 287 (5.1%) of 5,580 specimens from patients with acute respiratory infections tested positive for human metapneumovirus (HMPV). Phylogenetic analysis of N- and F-gene sequences of identified HMPV showed that 30% belonged to a novel phylogenetic cluster.

Keywords

• human metapneumovirus
• HMPV
• respiratory infections
• phylogeny
• dispatch
• Germany