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Human Bocavirus: Passenger or Pathogen in Acute Respiratory Tract Infections?

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Schildgen, Oliver, Müller, Andreas, Allander, Tobias, Mackay, Ian M., Völz, Sebastian, Kupfer, Bernd, Simon, Arne·2008·Clinical Microbiology Reviews

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SUMMARY: Human bocavirus (HBoV) is a newly identified virus tentatively assigned to the family Parvoviridae , subfamily Parvovirinae , genus Bocavirus . HBoV was first described in 2005 and has since been detected in respiratory tract secretions worldwide. Herein we review the literature on HBoV and discuss the biology and potential clinical impact of this virus. Most studies have been PCR based and performed on patients with acute respiratory symptoms, from whom HBoV was detected in 2 to 19% of the samples. HBoV-positive samples have been derived mainly from infants and young children. HBoV DNA has also been detected in the blood of patients with respiratory tract infection and in fecal samples of patients with diarrhea with or without concomitant respiratory symptoms. A characteristic feature of HBoV studies is the high frequency of coinciding detections, or codetections, with other viruses. Available data nevertheless indicate a statistical association between HBoV and acute respiratory tract disease. We present a model incorporating these somewhat contradictory findings and suggest that primary HBoV infection causes respiratory tract symptoms which can be followed by prolonged low-level virus shedding in the respiratory tract. Detection of the virus in this phase will be facilitated by other infections, either simply via increased sample cell count or via reactivation of HBoV, leading to an increased detection frequency of HBoV during other virus infections. We conclude that the majority of available HBoV studies are limited by the sole use of PCR diagnostics on respiratory tract secretions, addressing virus prevalence but not disease association. The ability to detect primary infection through the development of improved diagnostic methods will be of great importance for future studies seeking to assign a role for HBoV in causing respiratory illnesses.

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Schildgen, O., Müller, A., Allander, T., Mackay, I. M., Völz, S., Kupfer, B., & Simon, A.
Affiliations
  • Royal Children's Hospital (AU)
  • Institute for Virology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Venue
Clinical Microbiology Reviews
Published
2008-04
Volume
21
Issue
2
Pages
291-304
ISSN
  • 0893-8512 (ISSN-L)
  • 1098-6618
OpenAlex
W2106395530
Cited by
300
References
83
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FWCI
3.88
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Clinical Microbiology Reviews (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Respiratory viral infections research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Viral Infections and Immunology Research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › Parvovirus B19 Infection Studies
Keywords
human bocavirus, acute respiratory infections, Parvoviridae, bocavirus, viral co-detection, viral reactivation, infants and young children, respiratory secretions, viral prevalence, primary infection
MeSH terms
Antigens, Viral, Humans, Parvoviridae Infections, Respiratory System, Respiratory Tract Infections, Bocavirus

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