Molecular Characterization of Strains of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Identified in a Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Outpatient Unit Over 2 Years: Community or Nosocomial Infection?

Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1348-1355

  Machado, Adriana F ^a   Sallum, Maria Anice M ^a   Vilas Boas, Lucy S ^a   Tateno, Adriana F ^a   Machado, Clarisse M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; Molecular epidemiology; Nosocomial transmission; Outpatient care; Respiratory synctial virus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OUTPATIENT CARE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RISK FACTOR; RNA EXTRACTION; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

AMBULATORY CARE; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PROFESSIONAL-TO-PATIENT; MALE; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUSES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 56549128211     PISSN: 10838791     EISSN: 15236536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2008.09.012     Document Type: Article

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