Volume 27, Number 1—January 2021
Dispatch
Emerging Human Metapneumovirus Gene Duplication Variants in Patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Infection, China, 2017–2019
Zhibo Xie, Jin Xu, Yunhui Ren, Aili Cui, Huiling Wang, Jinhua Song, Qiang Zhang, Manli Hu, Wenbo Xu
, and Yan Zhang
, and Yan Zhang
Table 2
Distribution of HMPV positive samples and genotypes by year among patients with SARI admitted to Luohe Central Hospital, Luohe, China, during October 2017–June 2019*
| Year (months) | HMPV-positive samples | Total sequences obtained | A2b | A2c |
B1 | B2 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-dup | 111 nt-dup | 180 nt-dup | ||||||
| 2017 (Oct–Dec) | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 (Jan–Dec) | 36 | 21 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| 2019 (Jan–Jun) |
31 |
21 |
1 |
0 |
13 |
0 |
2 |
5 |
| Total |
72 |
43 |
1 |
3 |
22 |
6 |
5 |
6 |
| *dup, duplication; HMPV, human metapneumovirus; SARI, severe acute respiratory infection. | ||||||||
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