Prevalence and Clinical Symptoms of Human Metapneumovirus Infection in Hospitalized Patients

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 188, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1571-1577

  Van Den Hoogen, Bernadette G ^a   Van Doornum, Gerard J J ^a   Fockens, John C ^a   Cornelissen, Jan J ^a   Beyer, Walter E P ^a   De Groot, Ronald ^a   Osterhaus, Albert D M E ^a   Fouchier, Ron A M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPNEA; FEEDING DISORDER; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOXEMIA; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SPUTUM CULTURE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THROAT CULTURE; VIRUS DETECTION; WINTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; INFANT; MALE; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUSES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEASONS;

EID: 0346874140     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/379200     Document Type: Article

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