Acute lower respiratory infections due to respiratory syncytial virus and adenovirus among hospitalized children from Argentina

Clinical and Diagnostic Virology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 17-23

  Videla, Cristina ^a   Carballal, Guadalupe ^a   Misirlian, Alicia ^b   Aguilar, María ^b  

^a Centro De Educacion Medica e Investigaciones Clinicas Norberto QuirnoEscuela de Medicina   (Argentina)

^b HOSPITAL DE PEDIATRÍA PROF DR JUAN P GARRAHAN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Acute lower respiratory infections; Adenovirus; Hospitalized children under 2 years of age; Respiratory syncytial virus

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BRONCHIOLITIS; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INFANT; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; SEASONAL VARIATION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; WINTER;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADENOVIRUS INFECTIONS, HUMAN; ADENOVIRUSES, HUMAN; ARGENTINA; BRONCHIOLITIS, VIRAL; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS, HUMAN; SEASONS;

EID: 0031804525     PISSN: 09280197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-0197(98)00017-8     Document Type: Article

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