Long-term study on symptomless human metapneumovirus infection in hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients

New Microbiologica

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 255-258

  Debiaggi, Maurizia ^a   Canducci, Filippo ^d,e   Terulla, Cristina ^b   Sampaolo, Michela ^d,e   Marinozzi, Maria Chiara ^d,e   Alessandrino, Paolo Emilio ^c   Colombo, Anna Amelia ^c   Caldera, Daniela ^c   Bragotti, Letizia Zenone ^c   Migliavacca, Roberta ^a   Bianchi, Emanuela ^f   Romero, Egidio ^a,b   Clementi, Massimo ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b Servizio Analisi Microbiologiche

^c FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

^d IRCCS   (Italy)

^e VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^f Azienda Ospedaliera Melegnano   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute respiratory disease; Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; Human metapneumovirus

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS INFECTION; GENETICS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ITALY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; MULTICENTER STUDY; NASOPHARYNX; NEWBORN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; CARRIER STATE; CROSS INFECTION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; ITALY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; NASOPHARYNX; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS;

EID: 34547939269     PISSN: 11217138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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