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ArticleArchives of medical science : AMS2010

Human bocavirus infections in hospitalized Greek children.

Katerina Haidopoulou, Myrofora Goutaki, Lambrini Damianidou, Maria Eboriadou, Antonis Antoniadis, Anna Papa

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Article in Archives of medical science : AMS, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Katerina Haidopoulou4 Department of Paediatrics, Papageorgiou Hospital, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Myrofora Goutaki
Lambrini Damianidou
Maria Eboriadou
Antonis Antoniadis
Anna Papa

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionThe epidemiology of human bocavirus (HBoV) infections has not been described in Greece, a south-eastern European country. To define the epidemiological profile and the clinical characteristics associated with HBoV infection in a population of children hospitalized with respiratory tract infection. MATERIAL AND

methodsDuring a one-year period throat swab samples were collected from 370 previously healthy children, aged 14 days to 13 years, admitted to two different paediatric wards because of respiratory tract infection. Samples were tested for HBoV by PCR amplifying a part of the NS1 gene.

resultsHuman bocavirus was detected in 12 children (3.2%). Four of the 12 cases were co-infections, 3 of them with influenza A and 1 with coronavirus OC43. Cases were observed only during the cold months. The mean age of children was 1.8 years (range 2 months to 4 years). The most common symptoms were fever, cough and various degrees of respiratory distress. All children were clinically diagnosed as having lower respiratory tract infections, mainly pneumonia and acute laryngotracheobronchitis, and recovered uneventfully.

conclusionsHBoV infections occur in Greece mostly among very young children. They accounted for 3.2% of children hospitalized with acute respiratory disease. Cases were observed only in late autumn to early spring.

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childrenhuman bocavirusrespiratory infectionsrespiratory viruses

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PMID22371728
PMCPMC3278951

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