Human metapneumovirus in children, Singapore

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1396-1398

  Liat, Hui Loo ^a,b   Boon, Huan Tan ^c   Ley, Moy Ng ^a   Tee, Nancy W S ^b   Lin, Raymond T P ^d   Sugrue, Richard J ^a,e  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b KK WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^c DSO NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^e NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RATE; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION RISK; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RISK FACTOR; SINGAPORE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIRAL RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS TYPING;

EID: 34848928404     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1309.070220     Document Type: Article

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