Human rhinovirus group C in hospitalized children, Singapore

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1318-1320

  Tan, Boon Huan ^a   Loo, Liat Hui ^b,c   Lim, Elizabeth Ai Sim ^a   Seah, Shirley Lay Kheng ^a   Lin, Raymond T P ^d   Tee, Nancy W S ^c   Sugrue, Richard J ^b  

^a DSO NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c KK WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN RHINOVIRUS; INCIDENCE; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGAPORE; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PICORNAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHINOVIRUS; SEROTYPING; SINGAPORE;

EID: 68049088831     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1508.090321     Document Type: Letter

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