Increased detection of respiratory syncytial virus, influenza viruses, parainfluenza viruses, and adenoviruses with real-time pcr in samples from patients with respiratory symptoms

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2260-2262

  Van De Pol, Alma C ^a,b   Van Loon, Anton M ^a   Wolfs, Tom F W ^b   Jansen, Nicolaas J G ^b   Nijhuis, Monique ^a   Breteler, Els Klein ^a   Schuurman, Rob ^a   Rossen, John W A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c CPRLab   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VIRUS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; VIRAL RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS DETECTION;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ADENOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; ADULT; CHILD; HUMANS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUSES;

ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS;

EID: 34547629756     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00848-07     Document Type: Article

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