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cord-271445-eft2vwgb	Xepapadaki, Paraskevi	Human metapneumovirus as a causative agent of acute bronchiolitis in infants	2004-05-06		.txt	text/plain	1999	113	48	Background: Human Metapneumovirus (hMPV), has been recently isolated from children with acute respiratory tract infections (RTIs), including bronchiolitis, and classified in the Pneumovirinae subfamily within the Paramyxoviridae family. Results and conclusions: PCR revealed the presence of hMPV in 16% of bronchiolitis cases, whereas respiratory syncytial virus (RSV; 67.9%) was the most frequently encountered viral pathogen. There were no differences in disease characteristics, either clinical or laboratory, between bronchiolitis cases where hMPV was present and those caused by RSV or other viral pathogens. A new respiratory virus, human metapneumovirus (hMPV), has been recently isolated from nasopharyngeal aspirates of young children in the Netherlands (van den Hoogen et al., 2001) . We have recently reported the results of virological evaluation of a well-characterized cohort of infants admitted to hospital with acute bronchiolitis, using reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for 11 respiratory pathogens (Papadopoulos et al., 2002) .	./cache/cord-271445-eft2vwgb.txt	./txt/cord-271445-eft2vwgb.txt