id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-302918-0nk7zyod Broor, S. Human metapneumovirus: a new respiratory pathogen 2008-11-01 .txt text/plain 6062 282 44 Human metapneumovirus is a recently recognized pathogen of acute respiratory tract infection (ARI) in children as well as elderly and immunocompromised adults. Recent experimental work using primates (chimpanzees, cynomolgus and rhesus macaques, African green monkeys) and small animals (hamsters, cotton rats, mice and ferrets) has been performed to characterize the pathogenesis associated with this viral infection; hMPV replicates to a various extent in the upper and lower respiratory tracts of these experimental animals, although clinical symptoms after intranasal challenge have only been observed in chimpanzees, Cynomolgus macaques and BALB/c mice so far (van den Hoogen et al 2001; Alvarez et al 2004; Kuiken et al 2004; Skiadopoulos et al 2004; . Virological features and clinical manifestations associated with human metapneumovirus: a new paramyxovirus responsible for acute respiratory-tract infections in all age groups First Detection of Human Metapneumovirus in Children with Acute Respiratory Infection in India: a Preliminary Report ./cache/cord-302918-0nk7zyod.txt ./txt/cord-302918-0nk7zyod.txt