CHAN EL, BRANDT K, HORSMAN GB, BASTIEN N, LI Y; Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (42nd : 2002 : San Diego, Calif.).
Abstr Intersci Conf Antimicrob Agents Chemother Intersci Conf Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2002 Sep 27-30; 42: abstract no. V-475.
Provincial Laboratory, Regina, SK, Canada.
BACKGROUND: A newly discovered Human metapneumovirus that causes respiratory tract infection was studied in Saskatchewan during the influenza season of 2001 and 2002. METHODS:A total of 71 patients; 33 from October 2001 and 38 from January 2002, who had signs and symptoms of upper respiratory tract infection, were tested for Human pneumovirus using PCR assay. There were 39 females and 32 males with age ranging from 1 month to 89 years old. RESULTS: Nasopharyngeal or throat swabs from all these patients tested negative for Influenza A, B, Parainfluenza 1,2,3, RSV, Adenovirus by DFA as well as virus isolation. 11 of these specimens were positive by PCR for Human metapneumovirus. These included 7 females age 6 months to 89 years old and 4 males age 10 months to 58 years old. All of these patients had fever, 70% of them had cough, 40-50% had rhinitis, sore throat and flu-like symptoms. CONCLUSIONS: The current study demonstrates that Human metapneumovirus was present in Saskatchewan during this flu season in patients with age ranging from 6 months to 89 years. These results differ from a previous study reporting that only children were involved (van den Hoogen et al., 2001 Nature Medicine).
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Keywords:
- Child
- Communicable Diseases
- Female
- Hospitalization
- Humans
- Influenza, Human
- Male
- Metapneumovirus
- Nasopharynx
- Paramyxoviridae Infections
- Pneumovirus
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Human
- Respiratory Syncytial Viruses
- Respiratory Tract Infections
- Saskatchewan
- Seasons
Other ID:
UI: 102268395
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