Low to medium WU-virus titers in young children with lower respiratory tract infections.
The WU-virus (WUV), a novel polyomavirus, has recently been recovered from respiratory tract samples. Within a study collective of children with severe lower respiratory tract disease, 3% of the patients tested WUV positive. Viral loads ranged from 5 x 10(2) copies/ml to 1 x 10(4) copies/ml. The WUV genome-positive patients did not display specific clinical or radiological characteristics to be distinguished from other respiratory tract infections.
Kleines
Michael
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Division of Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Aachen, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany. mkleines@ukaachen.de
Scheithauer
Simone
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Hengst
Meike
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Honnef
Dagmar
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Ritter
Klaus
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Mühler
Eberhard
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Häusler
Martin
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Rostamzadeh
Ayda
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