Clinical and Epidemiologic Characterization of WU Polyomavirus Infection, St. Louis, Missouri

Le, Binh-Minh; Demertzis, Lee M.; Wu, Guang; Tibbets, Robert J.; Buller, Richard; Arens, Max Q.; Gaynor, Anne M.; Storch, Gregory A.; Wang, David

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Clinical and Epidemiologic Characterization of WU Polyomavirus Infection, St. Louis, Missouri

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Dec 2007
By Le, Binh-Minh ; Demertzis, Lee M. ; Wu, Guang ; ...

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Emerg Infect Dis
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Le, Binh-Minh ; Demertzis, Lee M. ; Wu, Guang ; Tibbets, Robert J. ; Buller, Richard ; Arens, Max Q. ; Gaynor, Anne M. ; Storch, Gregory A. ; Wang, David
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WU polyomavirus is a recently described polyomavirus found in patients with respiratory infections. Of 2,637 respiratory samples tested in St. Louis, Missouri, 2.7% were positive for WU polyomavirus by PCR, and 71% were coinfected with other respiratory viruses. Persistent human infection with WU polyomavirus is described.
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Adolescent Adult Child Child, Preschool Dispatch Female Humans Infant Infant, Newborn Male Middle Aged Missouri Polyomaviridae Polyomavirus Polyomavirus Infections Respiratory Tract Infection Respiratory Tract Infections Time Factors Viral Persistence WU Polyomavirus
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Emerg Infect Dis. 13(12):1936-1938.
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13
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12
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Emerging Infectious Diseases
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