| Title | Detection of KI polyomavirus and WU polyomavirus DNA by real-time polymerase chain reaction in nasopharyngeal swabs and in normal lung and lung adenocarcinoma tissues. | ||
| Author | Teramoto, Shinobu; Kaiho, Miki; Takano, Yasuo; Endo, Rika; Kikuta, Hideaki; Sawa, Hirofumi; Ariga, Tadashi; Ishiguro, Nobuhisa | ||
| Journal | Microbiol Immunol | Publication Year/Month | 2011-Jul |
| PMID | 21545509 | PMCID | PMC7168359 |
| Affiliation | 1.Department of Pediatrics, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan. | ||
Polyomaviruses KI (KIPyV) and WU (WUPyV) were detected from 7 (3.0%) and 38 (16.4%) of 232 children with respiratory tract infections by real-time PCR. The rates of infection by KIPyV and WUPyV alone were 3 of 7 (42.9%) and 20 of 38 (52.6%), respectively. In the other samples, various viruses (human respiratory syncytial virus, human metapneumovirus, human rhinovirus, parainfluenza virus 1 and human bocavirus) were detected simultaneously. One case was positive for KIPyV, WUPyV and hMPV. There was no obvious difference in clinical symptoms between KIPyV-positive and WUPyV-positive patients with or without coinfection. KIPyV was detected in one of 30 specimens of lung tissue (3.3%). Neither of the viruses was detected in 30 samples of lung adenocarcinoma tissue.