Adenovirus type 3 outbreak in Connecticut associated with a novel variant

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 81, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1380-1384

  Landry, Marie L ^a   Lebeck, Mark G ^b   Capuano, Ana W ^b   McCarthy, Troy ^b   Gray, Gregory C ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenoviridae; Adenovirus; Communicable diseases; Emerging; Epidemiology; Infectious diseases; Outbreak; Respiratory tract diseases

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS; ADENOVIRUS 3; ADENOVIRUS INFECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PATIENT INFORMATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; UNITED STATES; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS STRAIN;

ADENOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; ADENOVIRUSES, HUMAN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONNECTICUT; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, VIRAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH;

ADENOVIRIDAE; HUMAN ADENOVIRUS TYPE 3;

EID: 68049084702     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: 10969071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.21539     Document Type: Article

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