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Volume 21, Number 2—February 2015
Dispatch

Acquisition of Human Polyomaviruses in the First 18 Months of Life

Rebecca RockettComments to Author , Seweryn Bialasiewicz, Lebogang Mhango, Jane Gaydon, Rebecca Holding, David Whiley, Stephen B. Lambert, Robert S. Ware, Michael D. Nissen, Keith Grimwood, and Theo P. Sloots
Author affiliations: Queensland Children’s Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (R.J. Rockett, S. Bialasiewicz, L. Mhango, J. Gaydon, R. Holding, D.M. Whiley, S. B. Lambert, R.S.Ware, M.D. Nissen, K. Grimwood, T. P. Sloots); The University of Queensland, Brisbane (R.S. Ware); Queensland Health, Brisbane (S.B. Lambert); Pathology Queensland Central Laboratory, Herston, Queensland, Australia (M.D. Nissen); Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia (K. Grimwood); Gold Coast University Hospital, Gold Coast (K. Grimwood)

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Table 2

Characteristics of persons infected with polyomavirus in a subset of 56 ORChID study participants who had weekly anterior nasal swab specimens collected for 18 months during 2010–2014*

Characteristic WUPyV KIPyV MWPyV
No. sole detection episodes
 9
 14
 36
No. sole detection episodes with symptoms/no. tested, %
 4/7 (57)
 5/14 (36)
 13/36 (36)
No. sole detection episodes without symptoms
 3
 9
 23
Symptoms of LRTI
 0
 0
 0
Symptoms of URTI
 4
 3
 9
Symptoms of URTI and LRTI
 0
 0
 2
Only nonspecific symptoms
0
 1
 2
Diarrhea/vomiting
 1
 1
 1
Symptoms not available 2 0 0

*ORChID, Observational Research in Childhood Infectious Diseases; WUPyV, WU polyoma virus; KIPyV, KI polyomavirus; MWPyV, Malawi polyomavirus; LRTI, lower respiratory tract infection; URTI, upper respiratory tract infection.

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