Molecular epidemiological investigation of a nosocomial outbreak of human metapneumovirus infection in a pediatric hemato-oncology patient population∇

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1221-1224

  Kim, Sollip ^a   Sung, Heungsup ^a   Im, Ho Joon ^a   Hong, Soo Jong ^a   Kim, Mi Na ^a  

^a Asan Medical Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CANCER PATIENT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COUGHING; DISEASE COURSE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; INFANT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; URINE CULTURE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; BLOOD DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS;

VIRUS FUSION PROTEIN;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRAL FUSION PROTEINS;

EID: 65249142695     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01959-08     Document Type: Article

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