Clinical and epidemiologic characterization of WU polyomavirus infection, St. Louis, Missouri

Binh Minh Le; Lee M. Demertzis; Guang Wu; Robert J. Tibbets; Richard Buller; Max Q. Arens; Anne M. Gaynor; Gregory A. Storch; David Wang

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Clinical and epidemiologic characterization of WU polyomavirus infection, St. Louis, Missouri

Binh Minh Le, Lee M. Demertzis, Guang Wu, Robert J. Tibbets, Richard Buller, Max Q. Arens, Anne M. Gaynor, Gregory A. Storch, David Wang

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WU polyomavirus is a recently described polyomavirus found in patients with respiratory infections. Of 2,637 respiratory samples tested in St. Louis, Missouri, 2.7% were positive for WU polyomavirus by PCR, and 71% were coinfected with other respiratory viruses. Persistent human infection with WU polyomavirus is described.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1936-1938
Number of pages	3
Journal	Emerging Infectious Diseases
Volume	13
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1312.070977
State	Published - Dec 2007

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