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Novel Human Metapneumovirus Sublineage

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2006
In a pediatric surveillance network, 287 (5.1%) of 5,580 specimens from patients with acute respiratory infections tested positive for human metapneumovirus (HMPV).
Barbara Huck, Gesa Scharf, Dieter Neumann-Haefelin, Wolfram Puppe, Josef Weigl, Valeria Falcone   +5 more
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Encephalitis-Associated Human Metapneumovirus Pneumonia in Adult, Australia

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2015
Human metapneumovirus pneumonia, most commonly found in children, was diagnosed in an adult with encephalitis. This case suggests that testing for human metapneumovirus RNA in nasopharyngeal aspirate and cerebrospinal fluid samples should be considered ...
Anthony Fok, Cristina Mateevici, Belinda Lin, Ronil V. Chandra, Victor H.T. Chong   +4 more
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Human Metapneumovirus and Status Epilepticus

Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 2014
Investigators at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, OH, report 2 toddlers, ages 15 and 18 months, with human metapneumovirus (hMPV) infection who presented in status epilepticus and later developed respiratory failure.
J Gordon Millichap, John J Millichap
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Human Metapneumovirus in Severe Respiratory Syncytial Virus Bronchiolitis [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2003
Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction was used to detect segments of the M (matrix), N (nucleoprotein), and F (fusion) genes of human metapneumovirus in bronchoalveolar fluid from 30 infants with severe respiratory syncytial virus bronchiolitis.
Julie Greensill, Paul S. McNamara, Winifred Dove, Brian Flanagan, Rosalind L. Smyth, C. Anthony Hart   +5 more
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Human Metapneumovirus RNA in Encephalitis Patient

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2005
We describe a fatal case of encephalitis that might be correlated with primary human metapneumovirus (HMPV) encephalitis. Postmortem HMPV RNA was detected in brain and lung tissue samples from the patient.
Oliver Schildgen, Thomas Glatzel, Tilman Geikowski, Bärbel Scheibner, Arne Simon, Lutz Bindl, Mark Born, Sergei Viazov, Anja Wilkesmann, Gisela Knöpfle, Michael Roggendorf, Bertfried Matz   +11 more
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Human Metapneumovirus Infection among Children, Bangladesh

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2007
We confirmed circulation of human metapneumovirus (HMPV) among children with febrile and respiratory illness in an urban slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh, during active surveillance in 2001.
W. Abdullah Brooks, Dean D. Erdman, Pauline Terebuh, Alexander Klimov, Doli Goswami, Amina Tahia Sharmeen, Tasnim Azim, Stephen P. Luby, Carolyn Bridges, Robert Breiman   +9 more
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Human metapneumovirus in Southern Brazil

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
INTRODUCTION Infections caused by respiratory viruses are important problems worldwide, especially in children. Human metapneumovirus (hMPV) is a respiratory pathogen and causes severe infections with nonspecific symptoms.
Tatiana Schäffer Gregianini, Claudete Farina Seadi, Ivone Menegolla, Letícia Garay Martins, Nilo Ikuta, Jonas Michel Wolf, Vagner Ricardo Lunge   +6 more
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Dendritic Cells in Human Pneumovirus and Metapneumovirus Infections

Viruses, 2013
Lung dendritic cells (DC) play a fundamental role in sensing invading pathogens, as well as in the control of tolerogenic responses in the respiratory tract.
Antonieta Guerrero-Plata
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Interferon-Mediated Response to Human Metapneumovirus Infection

Viruses, 2018
Human metapneumovirus (HMPV) is one of the leading causes of respiratory diseases in infants and children worldwide. Although this pathogen infects mainly young children, elderly and immunocompromised people can be also seriously affected. To date, there
Ifeanyi K. Uche, Antonieta Guerrero-Plata   +1 more
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Human Metapneumovirus Antagonism of Innate Immune Responses

Viruses, 2012
 Human metapneumovirus (hMPV) is a recently identified RNA virus belonging to the Paramyxoviridae family, which includes several major human and animal pathogens.
Xiaoyong Bao, Antonella Casola, Deepthi Kolli   +2 more
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