Prospective study of human metapneumovirus infection: diagnosis, typing and virus quantification in nasopharyngeal secretions from pediatric patients gerna2007prospective
Prospective evaluation (winter-spring 2004-2005 and 2005-2006) of human metapneumovirus (hMPV) detection/typing in pediatric patients using monoclonal antibodies and RT-PCR, with viral load quantification in nasopharyngeal secretions. CSV-extracted figure data provide per-patient day-0 and follow-up measurements (relative to symptom onset) for metapneumovirus and some co-detected respiratory viruses (rhinovirus, influenza, coronavirus).
Analytes
metapneumovirus
Quantification of human metapneumovirus (hMPV) RNA in nasopharyngeal secretions by RT-PCR (exact assay details not available in provided text; values provided as viral load).
Measurements only — no shedding model is fitted to this analyte, usually because it is sampled once per participant, leaving no trajectory to fit, or because nothing was ever detected. Open triangles are non-detects, drawn at the assay's censoring limit. See the modelling methods for what these estimates do and do not support.
rhinovirus
Detection/quantification of rhinovirus RNA in nasopharyngeal secretions by RT-PCR (exact assay details not available in provided text; values provided as viral load).
Measurements only — no shedding model is fitted to this analyte, usually because it is sampled once per participant, leaving no trajectory to fit, or because nothing was ever detected. Open triangles are non-detects, drawn at the assay's censoring limit. See the modelling methods for what these estimates do and do not support.
influenza
Detection/quantification of influenza virus in nasopharyngeal secretions by RT-PCR (exact assay details not available in provided text; value reported as negative in CSV).
hCoV_63
Detection/quantification of hCoV NL63 in nasopharyngeal secretions by RT-PCR (exact assay details not available in provided text; value reported as negative in CSV).