Human metapneumovirus associated with respiratory tract infections in a 3-year study of nasal swabs from infants in Italy

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 2987-2991

  Maggi, Fabrizio ^a   Pifferi, Massimo ^a   Vatteroni, Marialinda ^a   Fornai, Claudia ^a   Tempestini, Elena ^a   Anzilotti, Silvia ^a   Lanini, Letizia ^a   Andreoli, Elisabetta ^a   Ragazzo, Vincenzo ^a   Pistello, Mauro ^a   Specter, Steven ^a,b   Bendinelli, Mauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; ITALY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; ITALY; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NASOPHARYNX; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RNA, VIRAL; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; PNEUMOVIRUS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0037830656     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.7.2987-2991.2003     Document Type: Article

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