TY - JOUR AU - Sloots, Theo AU - Mackay, Ian AU - Bialasiewicz, Seweryn AU - Jacob, Kevin AU - McQueen, Emily AU - Harnett, Gerald AU - Siebert, David AU - Masters, I. Brent AU - Young, Paul AU - Nissen, Michael T1 - Human Metapneumovirus, Australia, 2001–2004 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2006 VL - 12 IS - 8 SP - 1263 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We examined 10,025 respiratory samples collected for 4 years (2001–2004) and found a 7.1% average annual incidence of human metapneumovirus. The epidemic peak of infection was late winter to spring, and genotyping showed a change in predominant viral genotype in 3 of the 4 years. KW - human metapneumovirus KW - acute respiratory infection KW - respiratory viruses KW - epidemiology KW - genotyping KW - molecular KW - clinical KW - pediatric KW - Australia DO - 10.3201/eid1208.051239 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/8/05-1239_article ER - End of Reference