WU Polyomavirus Infection in Children, Germany
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WU Polyomavirus Infection in Children, Germany
To the Editor: The human polyomaviruses JC and BK are known to cause persisting infections, which are usually asymptomatic in immunocompetent patients but may lead to severe disease in those who are immunosuppressed (1). Recently, 2 novel viruses of the family Polyomaviridae were detected in respiratory samples and named KI (2) and WU polyomavirus (WUPyV) (3). To investigate the frequency of WU...
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عنوان ژورنال: Emerging Infectious Diseases
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1080-6040,1080-6059
DOI: 10.3201/eid0104.071325