| detection of human bocavirus from children and adults with acute respiratory tract illness in guangzhou, southern china. | abstract: background: human bocavirus (hbov) is a newly discovered parvovirus associated with acute respiratory tract illness (arti) and gastrointestinal illness. our study is the first to analyze the characteristics of hbov-positive samples from arti patients with a wide age distribution from guangzhou, southern china. methods: throat swabs (n = 2811) were collected and analyzed from children and adults with arti over a 13-month period. the hbov complete genome from a 60 year-old female patien ... | 2011 | 22168387 |