Metapneumovirus and acute wheezing in children

Lancet

Volumn 360, Issue 9343, 2002, Pages 1393-1394

  Jartti, Tuomas ^a   Van Den Hoogen, Bernadette ^c   Garofalo, Roberto P ^b   Osterhaus, Albert D M E ^c   Ruuskanen, Olli ^a  

^a TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 8; RANTES;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; NOSE SECRETION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; T LYMPHOCYTE; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; WHEEZING;

EID: 0037010447     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(02)11391-2     Document Type: Article

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