Detection of human coronavirus-NL63 in children in Japan.
Human coronavirus NL63 recently found in The Netherlands has been detected in Japan with a reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction technique in clinical specimens from pediatric patients with respiratory symptoms. Of 419 specimens that were negative for common respiratory viruses, 5 were positive for human coronavirus NL63, and these specimens were all collected in the first 3 months of 2003.
Virus Research Center, Sendai Medical Center, Sendai, Japan.
Akira
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Suzuki
Michiko
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Okamoto
Akira
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Ohmi
Oshi
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Watanabe
Shigeaki
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Miyabayashi
Hidekazu
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Nishimura
D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D017934:Coronavirus / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D018352:Coronavirus Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000821:virology; D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012141:Respiratory Tract Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000821:virology; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
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