Human metapneumovirus: A new player among respiratory viruses

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 983-990

  Hamelin, Marie Ève ^a   Abed, Yacine ^a   Boivin, Guy ^a,b  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARAMYXOVIRUS; PATHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 1842509161     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/382536     Document Type: Article

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