Early life infections with human bocavirus 1 (HBoV-1) are common, and the virus is readily detected in the upper respiratory tract, often during acute upper respiratory tract illness. Its etiological role in respiratory tract infections has been uncertain because of its presence in asymptomatic children and frequent concurrent detection of other respiratory viruses. Longitudinal cohort studies,...

Human bocaviruses (HBoVs) have been detected in human gastrointestinal infections worldwide. Although HBoV global prevalence and strains diversity have been reported, but epidemiological data from Taiwan is largely unavailable to date. A total of 110 fecal samples from stools of diarrheic children at a general hospital, Taiwan, obtained from August 2012 to July 2013, were analyzed by nested PCR...

Human bocavirus (HBoV) is a newly discovered parvovirus associated with respiratory disease in children. There are many reports worldwide on the endemicity of this virus. Since it is relatively new, detection in clinical laboratories is not routinely performed. We describe the first detection of HBoV in Malaysia in a 13-month-old boy with pneumonia and underlying asthma. The infective agent was...

Human bocavirus was detected by PCR in 65 (5.1%) of 1,265 respiratory specimens collected in 2002 and 2003 from the Stollery Children's Hospital from children <17 years of age. The spectrum of illness included upper respiratory infection, croup, bronchiolitis, and pneumonia with a prominence of cough and fever.

Human bocavirus was detected in 57 (18.3%) of 312 children with acute respiratory infection (ARI) who required hospitalization in Jordan. It was also detected in 30 (21.7%) of 138 children with severe ARI, in 27 (15.5%) of 174 with mild or moderate disease, and in 41 (72%) of 57 with other pathogens.

Viral respiratory tract infections are one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in pediatric pathology. The authors provide the latest information on the structure, pathogenesis, clinical features, epidemiology and response to treatment of newly discovered viruses affecting the respiratory tract in children: bocavirus, metapneumovirus, coronaviruses, rhinovirus C.

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BACKGROUND DNA of the polyomaviruses WU (WUPyV) and KI (KIPyV) and of human bocavirus (HBoV) has been detected with varying frequency in respiratory tract samples of children. However, only little is known about the humoral immune response against these viruses. Our aim was to establish virus-specific serological assays and to determine the prevalence of immunoglobulin G (IgG) against these thr...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Human Bocavirus (HBoV) has been described since 2005 as an etiological agent of respiratory virus infections. From 2001 to 2008 we investigated the etiology of HBoV among adults and children in different groups at risk of presenting complications arising from acute respiratory infection, the investigation was carried out in a tertiary hospital health care system in Bra...

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