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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Kapoor A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2678954 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The Journal of infectious diseases 20090101 2
Viral metagenomic analysis was used to identify a previously uncharacterized parvovirus species, "HBoV2," whose closest phylogenetic relative is the human bocavirus (HBoV). HBoV2 has a genomic organization identical to that of HBoV but has only 78%, 67%, and 80% identity, respectively, with the latter's NS1, NP1, and VP1/VP2 proteins. The study used polymerase chain reaction to detect HBoV2 sequences in 5 of 98 stool samples from Pakistani children and in 3 of 699 stool samples from Edinburgh. N ...[more]