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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 51, Issue 10, Pages 3461-3463Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01157-13
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- Helsinki University Central Hospital Research and Education and Research and Development Funds
- Sigrid Juselius Foundation
- Medical Society of Finland
- Academy of Finland [1122539]
- University of Helsinki Research Fund
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An immunosuppressed 61-year-old man went to the hospital with fever, nonproductive cough, and increasing shortness of breath. The subject died 8 days later of respiratory complications. PCR of respiratory samples as well as a blood sample revealed exceptionally high DNA levels of the emerging pathogen, human bocavirus 1 (HBoV1), a recently found pathogen associated with respiratory symptoms in young children. We describe the clinical progression of the case and discuss the potential role of HBoV1 in the outcome.
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