Human metapneumovirus and respiratory syncytial virus in hospitalized Danish children with acute respiratory tract infection

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 578-584

  von Linstow, Marie Louise ^a   Larsen, Hans Henrik ^a   Eugen Olsen, Jesper ^a   Koch, Anders ^b   Winther, Thilde Nordmann ^a   Meyer, Anne Marie ^a   Westh, Henrik ^a   Lundgren, Bettina ^a   Melbye, Mads ^b   Høgh, Birthe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRONCHITIS; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENE TARGETING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENE; WINTER;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD, HOSPITALIZED; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUSES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 4544232750     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540410018166     Document Type: Article

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