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cord-010155-g5fk567p	Schildgen, Verena	Absence of Melaka-virus in European children with respiratory disease	2008-03-24		.txt	text/plain	672	45	61	As our group is interested in the epidemiology of newly discovered viruses such as HMPV, human Bocavirus, and newly discovered Coronaviruses, in the cohort of hospitalized pediatric and adult high risk patients (2-5) we have screened 225 nasopharyngeal washes that were previously RT-PCR tested for RSV, HMPV, human Coronaviruses (NL63, OC43, 229E, HKU1, and SARS), and human Bocavirus (detailed protocols available on request and previously published in: 2-5) for the presence of Melaka-virus RNA. Although the lack of a Melakavirus RNA positive sample does not imply that it is absent in our clinical samples since it could have been below the detection limit of the RT-PCR assay, we can still conclude that Melaka-virus plays no or only a minor role in hospitalized European pediatric patients. We finally conclude that Melaka-virus testing should preferably be carried out in populations with suspected contact to the virus such as inhabitants of the endemic regions or air travellers with symptoms of respiratory disease (Luna et al., 2007) .	./cache/cord-010155-g5fk567p.txt	./txt/cord-010155-g5fk567p.txt