Human Bocaviruses Are Highly Diverse, Dispersed, Recombination Prone, and Prevalent in Enteric Infections

Kapoor, Amit; Simmonds, Peter; Slikas, Beth; Li, Linlin; Bodhidatta, Ladaporn; Sethabutr, Orntipa; Triki, Henda; Bahri, Olfa; Soji Oderinde, Bamidele; M, Baba; Bukbuk, David; M. Besser, John; M. Bartkus, Joanne; Delwart, Eric

doi:10.1086/652416

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Human Bocaviruses Are Highly Diverse, Dispersed, Recombination Prone, and Prevalent in Enteric Infections

Published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases • Apr 23, 2010

Authors:

Amit Kapoor

Peter Simmonds

Beth Slikas

Abstract

A new species of parvovirus, tentatively named human bocavirus 4 (HBoV4), was genetically characterized. Among 641 feces samples obtained from children and adults, the most commonly detected bocavirus species were, in descending order, HBoV2, HBoV3, HBoV4, and HBoV1, with an HBoV2 prevalence of 21% ...

Subject

Human bocavirus

Biology

Diarrhea

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