Epidemiology of two human protoparvoviruses, bufavirus and tusavirus

• Main Authors: Elina Vaisanen, Minna Paloniemi, Inka Kuisma, Väinö Lithovius, Arun Kumar, Rauli Franssila, Kamruddin Ahmed, Eric Delwart, Timo Vesikari, Klaus Hedman, Maria Söderlund-Venermo
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Springer Nature 2016
• Subjects: QR Microbiology
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/19599/1/Epidemiology%20of%20two%20human%20protoparvoviruses.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/19599/7/Epidemiology%20of%20two%20human.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/19599/; http://doi.org/10.1038/srep39267

Two human parvoviruses were recently discovered by metagenomics in Africa, bufavirus (BuV) in 2012 and tusavirus (TuV) in 2014. These viruses have been studied exclusively by PCR in stool and detected only in patients with diarrhoea, although at low prevalence. Three genotypes of BuV have been ident...