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Novel Human Parechovirus from Brazil

Jan Felix Drexler, Klaus Grywna, Andreas Stöcker, Patrícia S. Vilas Boas de Almeida, Tereza Cristina Medrado Ribeiro, Monika Eschbach-Bludau, Nadine Petersen, Hugo da Costa Ribeiro, Christian Drosten

Emerging infectious diseases · 2009 · 117 citations · 13 references

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Human parechoviruses (HPeVs) were detected by reverse transcription-PCR in 16.1% of 335 stool samples from children <6 years of age with enteritis in Salvador, Brazil. Whole genome sequencing of 1 sample showed a novel HPeV that has been designated as HPeV8.

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