Seroepidemiology of Human Bocavirus in Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan

• Published in: Journal of Clinical Microbiology Vol. 45; no. 10; pp. 3218 - 3223
• Main Authors: Endo, Rika, Ishiguro, Nobuhisa, Kikuta, Hideaki, Teramoto, Shinobu, Shirkoohi, Reza, Ma, Xiaoming, Ebihara, Takashi, Ishiko, Hiroaki, Ariga, Tadashi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC American Society for Microbiology 01.10.2007
• Subjects: Animals; Antibodies, Viral - blood; Antibody Specificity; Baculovirus; Biological and medical sciences; Blotting, Western; Bocavirus - immunology; DNA, Viral - blood; Epidemiology; Fluorescent Antibody Technique; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Microbiology; Nasopharynx - virology; Parvoviridae Infections - epidemiology; Parvovirus B19, Human - immunology; Seroepidemiologic Studies; Spodoptera; Trichoplusia ni; Virology; Asia; Japan; Hokkaido; Virus; Surveillance; Bocavirus; Parvoviridae; Serology; Human bocavirus; Epidemiology; Public health; Parvovirinae

A new human virus, provisionally named human bocavirus (HBoV), was discovered by Swedish researchers in 2005. A new immunofluorescence assay using Trichoplusia ni insect cells infected with a recombinant baculovirus expressing the VP1 protein of HBoV was developed, and the levels of immunoglobulin G...