Definitions
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- noun Any of a group of
viruses responsible forrespiratory infection inhumans andbirds .
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Examples
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For example, how many people have heard of bocavirus, which is responsible for bronchitis and pneumonia in young children, or metapneumovirus, responsible for more than 5 percent of all flu-related illnesses?
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They have their own tests, of course, and so they tested her for over 70 different assays, for every sort of bacteria and fungus and viral assay you can buy off the shelf: SARS, metapneumovirus, HIV, RSV -- all these.
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They have their own tests, of course, and so they tested her for over 70 different assays, for every sort of bacteria and fungus and viral assay you can buy off the shelf: SARS, metapneumovirus, HIV, RSV -- all these.
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They have their own tests, of course, and so they tested her for over 70 different assays, for every sort of bacteria and fungus and viral assay you can buy off the shelf: SARS, metapneumovirus, HIV, RSV -- all these.
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The Canadians say it's caused by the metapneumovirus family, which is rarely found in humans and, when it is, normally causes respiratory disease in children.
Medpundit 2003
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The Canadians say it's caused by the metapneumovirus family, which is rarely found in humans and, when it is, normally causes respiratory disease in children.
Archive 2003-04-01 2003
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Jacob KC, Woolhouse D, Waller K, Syrmis MW, et al. (2003) Molecular assays for detection of human metapneumovirus.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Antoine Nougairède et al. 2010
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This was revealed to be a correct result after unblinding of the specimen identification as a non-influenza control Type C avian metapneumovirus.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles David Metzgar et al. 2010
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The RPM-Flu assay of specimen USDA_13 was reported negative for detection of avian influenza virus, but the same assay also reported the specimen to be positive for avian metapneumovirus.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles David Metzgar et al. 2010
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EV: enteroviruses; WU: WU polyomavirus; PARAINF: parainfluenza viruses 1/2/3/4; COR NL63: human coronavirus NL63; COR OC43: human coronavirus OC43; COR 229E: human coronavirus 229E; MPV: human metapneumovirus;
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Antoine Nougairède et al. 2010
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