Human metapneumovirus detection in patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1058-1063

  Chan, Paul K S ^a,b   Tam, John S ^a   Lam, Ching Wan ^a   Chan, Edward ^a   Wu, Alan ^a   Li, Chi Kong ^a   Buckley, Thomas A ^a   Ng, King Cheung ^a   Joynt, Gavin M ^a   Cheng, Frankie W T ^a   To, Ka Fai ^a   Lee, Nelson ^a   Hui, David S C ^a   Cheung, Jo L K ^a   Chu, Ida ^a   Liu, Esther ^a   Chung, Sydney S C ^a   Sung, Joseph J Y ^a  

^a and Hong Kong Branch of CAS Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONAVIRUS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEP 2 CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LARYNX CARCINOMA; MALE; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PNEUMONIA; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION;

EID: 0042818007     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0909.030304     Document Type: Article

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