Respiratory syncytial virus epidemics: Variable dominance of subgroups a and b strains among children, 1981-1986

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 143-148

  Mufson, Maurice A ^a,a,b   Belshe, Robert B ^a,b   Örvell, Claes ^a,b   Norrby, Erling ^a,b  

^a MARSHALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b National Bacteriological Laboratory   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; EPIDEMIC; ETIOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMAN; INFANT; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUSES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RESPIROVIRUS INFECTIONS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; WEST VIRGINIA;

EID: 0023832996     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/157.1.143     Document Type: Article

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