Diagnostic methods for and clinical pictures of polyomavirus primary infections in children, Finland.



: Tingting Chen, Laura Tanner, Ville Simell, Lea Hedman, Marjaana Mäkinen, Mohammadreza Sadeghi, Riitta Veijola, Heikki Hyöty, Jorma Ilonen, Mikael Knip, Jorma Toppari, Olli Simell, Maria Söderlund-Venermo, Klaus Hedman

: 2014

: Emerging Infectious Diseases

: Emerging infectious diseases

: Emerg Infect Dis

: 20

: 4

: 689

: 692

: 4

: 1080-6059

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2004.131015


We used comprehensive serodiagnostic methods (IgM, IgG, and IgG avidity) and PCR to study Merkel cell polyomavirus and trichodysplasia spinulosa-associated polyomavirus infections in children observed from infancy to adolescence. Comparing seroconversion intervals with previous and subsequent intervals, we found that primary infections with these 2 viruses were asymptomatic in childhood.




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