HMPV in China: Understanding the Rising Threat of Human Metapneumovirus
Human metapneumovirus (HMPV or hMPV) is a negative-sense, single-stranded RNA virus in the Pneumoviridae family that is closely related to Avian metapneumovirus (AMPV) subgroup C. It was first isolated in the Netherlands in 2001 utilizing the RAP-PCR (RNA arbitrarily primed PCR) approach for detecting unknown viruses in cultured cells. In 2016, it was the second […]
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