ReviewJournal of tropical medicine2018
Prevalence of Human Bocavirus in Africa and Other Developing Countries between 2005 and 2016: A Potential Emerging Viral Pathogen for Diarrhea.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 25 citations in OpenAlex.
- Prevalence of Human Bocavirus in Sewage, Surface Waters, and Other Environmental Milieux: A Meta-regression Modelling.Food and environmental virology · 2025Pooled it
- Atypical causes of respiratory virus infections in Sub-Saharan Africa from 2013- 2023: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Pooled it
- Systematic review and meta-analysis of human bocavirus as food safety risk in shellfish.Scientific reports · 2024Pooled it
- Current Insights into Porcine Bocavirus (PBoV) and Its Impact on the Economy and Public Health.Veterinary sciences · 2024Review
- Analysis of a Cohort of 165 Pediatric Patients with Human Bocavirus Infection and Comparison between Mono-Infection and Respiratory Co-Infections: A Retrospective Study.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- HBoV-1: virus structure, genomic features, life cycle, pathogenesis, epidemiology, diagnosis and clinical manifestations.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2023Review
- Respiratory illness virus infections with special emphasis on COVID-19.European journal of medical research · 2022Review
- Porcine Bocavirus: A 10-Year History since Its Discovery.Virologica Sinica · 2021Review
- Etiology of diarrheal disease among children under 5 years in Egypt: a high incidence of human bocavirus.The Journal of the Egyptian Public Health Association · 2021Article
- Human Bocavirus in Brazil: Molecular Epidemiology, Viral Load and Co-Infections.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Predominance of Human Bocavirus Genotype 1 and 3 in Outpatient Children with Diarrhea from Rural Communities in South Africa, 2017-2018.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- The First Detection of Human Bocavirus Species 2 and 3 in Raw Sewage and Mussels in South Africa.Food and environmental virology · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundHuman Bocavirus (HBoV) is an emerging virus discovered in 2005 from individuals suffering gastroenteritis and respiratory tract infections. Numerous studies related to the epidemiology and pathogenesis of HBoV have been conducted worldwide. This review reports on HBoV studies in individuals with acute gastroenteritis, with and without respiratory tract infections in Africa between 2005 and 2016. MATERIAL AND
methodThe search engines of PubMed, Google Scholar, and Embase database for published articles of HBoV were used to obtain data between 2005 and 2016. The search words included were as follows: studies performed in Africa or/other developing countries or/worldwide; studies for the detection of HBoV in patients with/without diarrhea and respiratory tract infection; studies using standardized laboratory techniques for detection.
resultsThe search yielded a total of 756 publications with 70 studies meeting the inclusion criteria. Studies included children and individuals of all age groups. HBoV prevalence in Africa was 13% in individuals suffering gastroenteritis with/without respiratory tract infection.
conclusionReports suggest that HBoV infections are increasingly being recognized worldwide. Therefore, surveillance of individuals suffering from infections in Africa is required to monitor the prevalence of HBoV and help understand the role of HBoV in individuals suffering from gastroenteritis with/without respiratory tract infection.
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