Human parainfluenza type 4 infections, Canada

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1755-1758

  Vachon, Marie Louise ^a,b   Dionne, Natasha ^a,b   Leblanc, Éric ^a,b   Moisan, Danielle ^c   Bergeron, Michel G ^a,b   Boivin, Guy ^a,b,d  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c Centre Hospitalier Régional du Grand Portage CSSS de Rivière du Loup   (Canada)

^d LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CELL STRAIN; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE SEQUENCE; HEMADSORPTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INFLUENZA; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS; RNA VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

EID: 33750547086     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1211.060196     Document Type: Article

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