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

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

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 po...

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Main Authors: Binh-Minh Le, Lee M. Demertzis, Guang Wu, Robert J. Tibbets, Richard S. Buller, Max Q. Arens, Anne M. Gaynor, Gregory A. Storch, David Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2007-12-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
WU polyomavirus
Polyomaviridae
respiratory tract infection
viral persistence
dispatch
Missouri
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/13/12/07-0977_article

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