Detection of human metapneumovirus RNA sequence in nasopharyngeal SWAP sample from children with acute respiratory tract infections in Najaf Province, Iraq

• Published in: AIP conference proceedings Vol. 2977; no. 1
• Main Authors: Abed, Wurood Kadhim, Hussein, Humam Kasem
• Format: Journal Article Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Melville American Institute of Physics 22.12.2023
• Subjects: Children; Girls; Hospitals; Infections; Teaching hospitals; Viruses; Iraq; An Najaf Iraq
• DOI: 10.1063/5.0182237
• ISSN: 0094-243X

The purpose of this subject is to identify what is being studied in the article, which is the involvement of human Metapneumovirus in children with respiratory illnesses. During the period November 2020 to February 2021, 100 patients with respiratory tract infections were admitted to Al Zahra Teaching Hospital and AL-Forat AL-Awsat Teaching Hospital in Najaf Governorate. Nasopharyngeal swabs were collected from patients for molecular diagnosis of human metapneumovirus using Real-Time-PCR. The patients were distributed based on age into five groups as follows (Less than one, 1-2, 2-3, 3-4, and 4-5 years), and twenty samples of healthy individuals were approved as a control group without any clinical signs of infection. the children of age group less than one year more vulnerable to infections, their rate significant difference was recorded between boys and girls according to sex distribution (P<0.005). There were more boys than girls as a percentage. 53% of the virus was determined to be present, according to this analysis, and the genes in the virus and those discovered in the National Center for Biotechnology Information.