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Human metapneumovirus in patients hospitalized with acute respiratory infections: A meta-analysis.
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- Prevalence of human respiratory syncytial virus infection in people with acute respiratory tract infections in Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Influenza and other respiratory viruses · 2018Pooled it
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- Emergence and Molecular Epidemiology of Human Metapneumovirus in Greece in the Post-COVID Era.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Molecular Evolution of theMicroorganisms · 2026Article
- Genetic and epidemiological characteristics of the spread of human metapneumovirus in Bulgaria, 2023-2025.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Clinical Impact of Polymicrobial Interactions in Human-Metapneumovirus-Infected Children: A Targeted Next-Generation Sequencing Based Retrospective Study.Infection and drug resistance · 2026Article
- Human metapneumovirus: understanding the molecular mechanisms and pathology of infection.Journal of virology · 2025Review
- Epidemiology of Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) in India: a cross-sectional study.The Lancet regional health. Southeast Asia · 2025Article
- Epidemiology and Burden of Human Metapneumovirus Among Italian Adults in Outpatient and Inpatient Settings, 2014-2025.Influenza and other respiratory viruses · 2025Article
- Epidemiology and Genetic Diversity of Human Metapneumovirus in Patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Infection from 2023 to 2024 in Ningxia, China.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Characteristics of Human Metapneumovirus Infection Compared to Respiratory Syncytial Virus and Influenza Infections in Adults Hospitalized for Influenza-Like Illness in France, 2012-2022.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Vaccine Development for Human Pneumoviruses.Vaccines · 2025Review
- Human metapneumovirus (hMPV) in 2025: emerging trends and insights from community and hospital-based respiratory panel analyses-a comprehensive review.Virology journal · 2025Review
- A Case of Severe Respiratory Failure Caused by Metapneumovirus and Influenza Virus in a Patient with HIV Infection.Viruses · 2025Article
- Human metapneumovirus respiratory infection affects both innate and adaptive intestinal immunity.Frontiers in immunology · 2024Article
- Human metapneumovirus (hMPV): an associated etiology of severe acute respiratory infection in children of Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India.Access microbiology · 2024Article
- A decade of human metapneumovirus in hospitalized children with acute respiratory infection: molecular epidemiology in central Vietnam, 2007-2017.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
This meta-analysis aimed to estimate the prevalence of human metapneumovirus (hMPV) infections in patients hospitalized for acute respiratory infection (ARI) and to study factors associated with this prevalence. Medline and ScienceDirect databases were searched for prospective observational studies that screened hospitalized patients with ARI for hMPV by RT-PCR, with data available at December 27, 2014. The risk of bias was assessed regarding participation rate, definition of ARI, description of diagnostic technique, method of inclusion identical for all subjects, standardized and identical sampling method for all subjects, analysis performed according to the relevant subgroups, and presentation of data sources. Random-effect meta-analysis with arcsine transformation and meta-regressions was used. In the 75 articles included, the prevalence of hMPV among hospitalized ARI was 6.24% (95% CI 5.25-7.30). An effect of the duration of the inclusion period was observed (p=0.0114), with a higher prevalence of hMPV in studies conducted during periods of 7-11 months (10.56%, 95% CI 5.97-16.27) or complete years (7.55%, 95% CI 5.90-9.38) than in periods of 6 months or less (5.36%, 95% CI 4.29-6.54). A significant increase in the incidence with increasing distance from the equator was observed (p=0.0384). hMPV should be taken into account as a possible etiology in hospitalized ARI.
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