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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, March 2006, p. 1132-1134, Vol. 44, No. 3
0095-1137/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.44.3.1132-1134.2006
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Detection of Human Bocavirus in Japanese Children with Lower Respiratory Tract Infections

Department of Pediatrics,¹ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo,² Mitsubishi Kagaku Bio-Clinical Laboratories, Inc., Tokyo, Japan³

Received 21 November 2005/ Returned for modification 29 December 2005/ Accepted 6 January 2006

Human bocavirus (HBoV), a newly cloned human virus of the genus Bocavirus, was detected by PCR from nasopharyngeal swab samples (8 of 318; 5.7%) collected from children with lower respiratory tract infections. HBoV may be one of the causative agents of lower respiratory tract infections in young children.

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