| molecular epidemiology of human metapneumovirus from 2005 to 2011 in fukui, japan. | to investigate the molecular epidemiology of human metapneumovirus (hmpv) infections in acute respiratory infections (ari), we performed genetic analysis of the f gene in hmpv from patients with ari in fukui prefecture from august 2005 to july 2011. hmpv was detected in 53 of 741 nasopharyngeal swabs (7.2%). phylogenetic analysis helped us assign 31 strains to subgroup a2, 1 strain to subgroup b1, and 21 strains to subgroup b2. the prevalence of hmpv was peaked between january and june. a high d ... | 2013 | 23429087 |