Comprehensive diagnostics for respiratory virus infections after transplantation or after potential exposure to swine flu AH1N1: What else is out there?

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 287-289

  Dumoulin, A ^a   Widmer, A F X ^b   Hirsch, H H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; OSELTAMIVIR; SIALIDASE INHIBITOR;

ADENOVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; INFLUENZA VIRUS B; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPID NUCLEIC ACID TESTING; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; RHINOVIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; DNA VIRUSES; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; NUCLEIC ACIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; RNA VIRUSES; SWINE;

EID: 68849100848     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2009.00425.x     Document Type: Review

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