Outbreak of human metapneumovirus infection in elderly inpatients in Japan [10]

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 177-180

  Honda, Haruhito ^a   Iwahashi, Jun ^a   Kashiwagi, Takahito ^a   Imamura, Yoshihiro ^a   Hamada, Nobuyuki ^a   Anraku, Takehiko ^b   Ueda, Seiichiro ^b   Kanda, Tsugiyasu ^c   Takahashi, Takashi ^c   Morimoto, Shigeto ^c  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Ueda Hospital   (Japan)

^c KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; JAPAN; LETTER; MALE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROCONVERSION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS INFECTION; DAY CARE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 33645123232     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2005.00575_10.x     Document Type: Letter

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