A summer outbreak of human metapneumovirus infection in a long-term-care facility

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 196, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 705-708

  Louie, Janice K ^a,c   Schnurr, David P ^a   Pan, Chao Yang ^a   Kiang, David ^a   Carter, Connie ^b   Tougaw, Sandra ^b   Ventura, Jean ^b   Norman, Agnes ^b   Belmusto, Vivian ^b   Rosenberg, Jon ^a   Trochet, Glennah ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Sacramento County Public Health   (United States)

^c VIRAL AND RICKETTSIAL DISEASE LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COUGHING; FEMALE; FEVER; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; LETHARGY; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARAMYXOVIRUS; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPRING; SUMMER; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; WHEEZING; WINTER;

AGED; CALIFORNIA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34548087298     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/519846     Document Type: Article

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