TY - JOUR AU - Chieochansin, Thaweesak AU - Kapoor, Amit AU - Delwart, Eric AU - Poovorawan, Yong AU - Simmonds, Peter T1 - Absence of Detectable Replication of Human Bocavirus Species 2 in Respiratory Tract T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2009 VL - 15 IS - 9 SP - 1503 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Human bocavirus (HBoV) commonly infects young children and is associated with respiratory disease; disease associations of the divergent HBoV-2 species are unknown. Frequent HBoV-2 detection in fecal samples indicated widespread circulation in the United Kingdom and Thailand, but its lack of detection among 6,524 respiratory samples indicates likely differences from HBoV-1 in tropism/pathogenesis. KW - Human bocavirus KW - parvovirus KW - PCR KW - respiratory infections KW - diagnosis KW - diarrhea KW - gastroenteritis KW - viruses KW - epidemiology KW - enteric diseases KW - dispatch KW - United Kingdom KW - Thailand DO - 10.3201/eid1509.090394 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/15/9/09-0394_article ER - End of Reference