Severe acute respiratory syndrome. The public health laboratory in a global emergency;Sindrome respiratorio agudo grave. El laboratorio de salud publica frente a una emergencia global

Medicina

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 36-40

  Baumeister, Elsa G ^a   Lewis, Adrian P ^a   Bozzini, Juan P ^a   Savy, Vilma L ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ENFERMEDADES INFECCIOSAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Atypical pneumonia; Coronavirus like particles; Electronic microscopy; PCR; SARS

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL LABORATORY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPIDEMIC; GERMANY; HONG KONG; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SOUTHEAST ASIA; STAINING; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; DIAGNOSIS, MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY; HEALTH; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMERGENCIES; HUMANS; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARS VIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 17144408342     PISSN: 00257680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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