Acute lower respiratory infections in hospitalized children over a 6 year period in Tokyo

Pediatrics International

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 519-524

  Sonoda, Satomi ^a,b   Gotoh, Yoshinari ^c   Bann, Fumihiko ^c   Nakayama, Tetsuo ^b  

^a SAISEIKAI CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KITASATO INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c BML   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute lower respiratory infections; Respiratory tract virus; Virological epidemiology; Virus isolation

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ADENOVIRUS; ARTICLE; CHILD; ENTEROVIRUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; INFLUENZA VIRUS B; JAPAN; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASLES VIRUS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; SEASONAL VARIATION;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; PNEUMONIA, MYCOPLASMA; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SEASONS; TOKYO; VIRUS DISEASES; WHOOPING COUGH;

EID: 0032835595     PISSN: 13288067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-200X.1999.01100.x     Document Type: Article

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