TY - JOUR AU - Xie, Zhibo AU - Xu, Jin AU - Ren, Yunhui AU - Cui, Aili AU - Wang, Huiling AU - Song, Jinhua AU - Zhang, Qiang AU - Hu, Manli AU - Xu, Wenbo AU - Zhang, Yan T1 - Emerging Human Metapneumovirus Gene Duplication Variants in Patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Infection, China, 2017–2019 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2021 VL - 27 IS - 1 SP - 275 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We detected human metapneumovirus (HMPV) in 72 (7.1%) of 1,021 patients hospitalized with severe acute respiratory infection in Luohe, China, during 2017–2019. We detected HMPV most frequently in young children and less often in adults. HMPV genotype A2c variants 111 nt and 180 nt duplications predominated, demonstrating their continuing geographic spread. KW - acute respiratory tract infections KW - China KW - genetic variations KW - human metapneumovirus KW - Metapneumovirus KW - Pneumoviridae KW - severe acute respiratory infection KW - viruses KW - respiratory infection DO - 10.3201/eid2701.201043 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/1/20-1043_article ER - End of Reference