Studies on Viral Respiratory Infections with Bocavirus in Romania | Chapter 8 | Research Advances in Microbiology and Biotechnology Vol. 5

 Tobias Allander and others. (Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden) first identified the human Bocavirus (BoV) in nasopharyngeal aspirates captured from children with harsh respiratory sicknesses in 2001. Using a random PCR cloning sequencing approach, it was raise that 17 out of 540 samples (3.1%) held a novel DNA virus. The name Bocavirus is derived from member of genus bos and canine, refer to the known hosts for other appendages of this type: the bovine parvovirus, which infects oxen, and the minute virus of dogs, which infects dogs. The virus's ghost in serum, seat, and respiratory secretions plans that it may cause systemic sickness.Bocavirus is a single-marooned DNA virus that is a appendage of the Parvoviridae family. The samples secondhand in our investigation were nasopharyngeal exudates taken from 309 victims, aged 19 days to 96 age, who were hospitalized middle from two points September 2011 and September 2012 with a disease of SARI (severe acute respiring infections).Multiplex RT-PCR (reverse copy-polymerase chain reaction) with the Seeplex 15 One-Step RV ACE Detection Kit was the demonstrative technique applyied to find human BoV. Ten of the 309 samples tested for human bocavirus were found expected positive. Children (7 months to 3.5 age old) accompanying bronchiolitis and pneumonia without gastrointestinal symptoms given all 10 samples. The data reasoning revealed the following findings: HumanBoV is still present in Romania, meeting accompanying young children. The percent of 3.3% is comparable to      that found in Sweden but inferior in Jordan (9%), China (7%) and Taiwan (5, 6%).Patients admitted to the hospital and pronounced with BoV had only respiring symptoms (LRTI, lower respiratory lot infections) and no digestive syndromes.Cases of BoV positivity were not linked to added viruses.

Author(s) Details:

Cristina Tecu,
NIRDMI Cantacuzino, Romania.

Maria Elena Mihai,
NIRDMI Cantacuzino, Romania.

Viorel Alexandrescu,
NIRDMI Cantacuzino, Romania.

Alina Ivanciuc,
NIRDMI Cantacuzino, Romania.

Gheorghe Necula,
NIRDMI Cantacuzino, Romania.

Emilia Lupulescu,
NIRDMI Cantacuzino, Romania.

Odette Popovici,
National Center for Communicable Disease Surveillance and Control, Romania.

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