Treatment of childhood intraneural perineurioma: A case report and literature review.

Background: Intraneural perineurioma is a rare, benign slow-growing lesion that usually involves a single main trunk nerve during childhood and young adulthood. The treatment of intraneural perineurioma is still a subject of controversy, especially in fast-growing children. To date, there was no systemic analysis of intraneural perineurioma in children.

Experiments Investigating the Competitive Growth Advantage of Two Different Genotypes of Human Metapneumovirus: Implications for the Alternation of Genotype Prevalence.

Human metapneumovirus (hMPV) is an important pathogen that causes upper and lower respiratory tract infections in children worldwide. hMPV has two major genotypes, hMPV-A and hMPV-B. Epidemiological studies have shown that the two hMPV genotypes alternate in predominance worldwide in recent years.

Replication and pathogenicity of attenuated human metapneumovirus F mutants in severe combined immunodeficiency mice.

This study was to evaluate the replication and pathogenicity of attenuated human metapneumovirus (HMPV) mutants in severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) mice. SCID mice were intranasally infected with either wild type GFP-rHMPV (WT), or mutant viruses (M1, M2 and M4) with the N-linked glycosylation(s) of the F protein removed. The organs were collected for viral isolation, titration, pulmonary histopathology and mRNA detection by PCR at different time points.