Chinese Pediatric Emergency Medicine 2010;17(5):390-391

doi:10.3760/cma.j.issn.1673-4912.2010.05.003

Epidemiology and clinical research of newly discovered respiratory viruses

Enmei LIU ; Caijing PENG

Keywords

Respiratory tract virus; Metapneumovirus; Coronavirus; Boca virus; Polyomavirus; Children

Country

China

Language

Chinese

Abstract

Respiratory tract infection is very common in children. Viruses play a critical role in childhood respiratory infection. Recently, there are several newly discovered viruses which have been investigated widely.Here we tried to introduce the epidemiology and clinical research of human metapneumovirus,SARS-coronavirus,coronavirus-NL63,coronavirus-HKU1 ,human Boca virus,KI-polyomavirus and WU-polyomavirus.