Human metapneumovirus infection in immunocompromised child

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Abed, Yacine ^a,b   Boivin, Guy ^a,b  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMANTADINE; OSELTAMIVIR; OXYGEN; PREDNISONE; ZANAMIVIR;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ANIMAL CELL; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATALITY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; LETTER; LUNG LAVAGE; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; NASOPHARYNGEAL ASPIRATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PERSISTENT VIRUS INFECTION; PNEUMONIA; PROGNOSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRAL RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS STRAIN; CASE REPORT; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEVERE COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; VIROLOGY;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; SEVERE COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY;

EID: 45249087036     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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