Epidemiology of two human protoparvoviruses, bufavirus and tusavirus

HIGHLIGHTS

• who: Elina Väisänen from the DepartmentUniversity of San Francisco, CA, USA have published the article: Epidemiology of two human protoparvoviruses, bufavirus and tusavirus, in the Journal: Scientific Reports Scientific Reports
• what: The authors therefore investigated the prevalence of BuV- and TuV-specific IgG antibodies, which can reveal prior virus encounters.

SUMMARY

The authors first analysed by quantitative PCR the presence of BuV DNA in stool and, for the first time, also in nasal swab samples from 955 children with symptoms of acute gastroenteritis, acute respiratory infection or both. The . . .

 



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