[Human Bocavirus 1: role in the acute respiratory infection and epidemiology in Cordoba, Argentina].

Human bocavirus 1 (HBoV1) is an agent of acute respiratory infection frequent in children. It can cause pneumonia in infants, in the absence of epidemiological risk factors and comorbidities. Well-controlled studies of clinical cases and case series are still useful for the characterization of the clinicoepideiological features of the infection, while research dives on the molecular biology of the virus and the virus-cell relationship allowing to unveil tha natural history of the infection. This article reviews the state of the art and future perspectives on this new human parvovirus and its etiological role in the respiratory pathology.