News that northern China is seeing a surge of the respiratory illness called human metapneumovirus (HMPV), bringing an uptick in hospitalizations, is sparking a bit of anxious déjà vu on social ...

As we are emerging from a "tripledemic" of RSV, Covid-19, and the flu, another virus is making its rounds. Human metapneumovirus (HMPV) is another in the catalog of respiratory viruses causing a stir.

There are no vaccines or specific drugs in use in the prevention or treatment of HMPV infection. Organization of the human metapneumovirus genome. The genome organization of HMPV compared with ...

One of the vaccines for a specific strain of an avian virus could come from a research lab on the campus of South Dakota ...

Anew virus is beginning to make headlines around ... the elderly and people with weakened immune systems. Human metapneumovirus (HMPV), although discovered in 2001, is making headlines after ...

After hMPV discovery in 2001, [1] epidemiologic and clinical information has defined the pathogenetic role of this virus as a cause of ARI in young children, usually aged less than 5 years.

Human metapneumovirus (hMPV), a negative, single-stranded RNA virus, accounts for approximately 5-15% of infant respiratory tract infections and poses a severe risk of disease and hospitalization ...

He studies rare B cells targeting common viruses, like respiratory syncytial virus, metapneumovirus, parainfluenza viruses, coronaviruses, and herpes viruses. He also studies how antibodies can be ...