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JOURNAL OF MEDICAL VIROLOGY
Volume 88, Issue 5, Pages 906-910Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.24415
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parvovirus; virus classification; fecal contaminant; epidemiology; shedding; pathogenesis
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Human Bocavirus (HBoV) has been recently identified in association with acute viral gastroenteritis (AGE). The objective of this work was to investigate the prevalence of HBoV in children with AGE in Albania. Stool specimens collected from 142 children were analyzed by amplification of partial NP1 and Vp1/Vp2 genes. HBoV was detected in 13 samples (9.1%), 12 HBoV-1 and one HBoV-2. All HBoV-positive patients were co-infected with rotavirus and/or adenovirus, a finding which might indicate that there is no clear causal association of this agent with diarrhea. Further investigation is needed to assess the pathogenic role of HBoV in childhood diarrhea. J. Med. Virol. 88:906-910, 2016. (c) 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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