Human metapneumovirus as a causative agent of lower respiratory tract infection in four patients: The first report of human metapneumovirus infection confirmed by RNA sequences in Taiwan

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 392-396

  Cheng, Ming Fang ^a,b   Chen, Bao Chen ^a,b,c   Kao, Chuan Liang ^c   Kao, Chih Hsiang ^a,b   Hsieh, Kai Sheng ^a,b   Liu, Yung Ching ^a,b  

^a KAOHSIUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; GENTAMICIN;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SUBGLOTTIC STENOSIS; TAIWAN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRACHEOSTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RNA, VIRAL; TAIWAN;

EID: 33744827453     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540500388750     Document Type: Article

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