Large epidemic of adenovirus type 4 infection among military trainees: Epidemiological, clinical, and laboratory studies

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 808-818

  Kolavic Gray, Shellie A ^a,e   Binn, Leonard N ^b   Sanchez, Jose L ^a   Cersovsky, Steven B ^c,f   Polyak, Christina S ^a,g   Mitchell Raymundo, Felicia ^b,h   Asher, Ludmila V ^d   Vaughn, David W ^b   Feighner, Brian H ^a,i   Innis, Bruce L ^b,j  

^a US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine   (United States)

^b Department of Immunology   (United States)

^c Preventive Medicine   (United States)

^d WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^e U S PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE   (United States)

^f Department of Dermatology   (Germany)

^g NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

ⁱ Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

^j Clinical Development and Medical Affairs in Oncology   (United States)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; ADENOVIRUS; ADENOVIRUS 4; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROCONVERSION; SOLDIER; VACCINATION; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ADENOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; RISK FACTORS; SEROLOGIC TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0036787518     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/342573     Document Type: Article

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