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Human metapneumovirus: a new cause of respiratory tract infections in children?
  1. S J Fowler
  1. Specialist Registrar, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK; stephen.fowler@papworth.nhs.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/thx.2004.la0084

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    ▴ Williams JV, Harris PA, Tollefson SJ, et al. Human metapneumovirus and lower respiratory tract disease in otherwise healthy infants and children. N Engl J Med2004;350:443–50
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    Human metapneumovirus was first isolated from humans with respiratory tract infections in 2001 and is closely related to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). This paper examines its prevalence in a large cohort of otherwise healthy children followed from birth to 5 years of age. Children attending a primary care clinic in Tennessee between 1976 …

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