id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-260338-or4faju7 Völz, Sebastian Prospective study of Human Bocavirus (HBoV) infection in a pediatric university hospital in Germany 2005/2006 2007-09-11 .txt text/plain 4323 248 50 BACKGROUND: Human Bocavirus (HBoV), a new species of the genus parvovirus newly detected in 2005, seems to be a worldwide distributed pathogen among children with respiratory tract infection (prevalence 2%–18%). Unlike patients with RSV-infection (Ogra, 2004; Simon et al., 2006) , and similar to those with HMPV-associated respiratory tract infection , children older than 6 months seem to be most at risk (Kesebir et al., 2006; Manning et al., 2006; Weissbrich et al., 2006) . This report discusses the prospectively documented viral RTIs in hospitalized pediatric patients in the 2005-2006 winter season and focuses on the HBoV infections detected. The most common clinical diagnoses of HBoV-positive patients included upper respiratory tract infection, bronchitis, bronchiolitis, pneumonia and exacerbation of asthma bronchiale. Human Bocavirus DNA detected by quantitative real-time PCR in two children hospitalized for lower respiratory tract infection ./cache/cord-260338-or4faju7.txt ./txt/cord-260338-or4faju7.txt