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Investigators Report on Metapneumovirus, SARS

Joan Stephenson, PhD

JAMA. 2003;290:2112-2115.

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Chicago—A virus identified just 2 years ago may be a leading cause of serious respiratory tract infections in young children, according to new findings by several groups of investigators.

In studies presented here at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, researchers found that human metapneumovirus (MPV), a respiratory virus discovered in 2001 by scientists in the Netherlands, may be responsible for the hospitalization of thousands of infants every year and the source of many colds in adults.

Researchers at Vanderbilt University tested 687 archived nasal specimens collected from children younger than 5 years with respiratory tract infections. Laboratory tests revealed that about 12% of the samples were positive for MPV—second only to respiratory syncytial virus,(RSV), which accounted for about half the infections, reported James F. Crowe, Jr, MD.

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Although MPV was recognized only recently, the microbe has been around for . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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