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

Emerg Infect Dis. 2007 Dec;13(12):1936-8. doi: 10.3201/eid1312.070977.

Abstract

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.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Missouri / epidemiology
  • Polyomavirus / classification
  • Polyomavirus / isolation & purification*
  • Polyomavirus Infections / epidemiology*
  • Polyomavirus Infections / virology
  • Respiratory Tract Infections / epidemiology
  • Respiratory Tract Infections / virology*
  • Time Factors