RNA viruses in community-acquired childhood pneumonia in semi-urban Nepal; a cross-sectional study

BMC Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Mathisen, Maria ^a   Strand, Tor A ^a,b   Sharma, Biswa N ^c   Chandyo, Ram K ^a,d   Valentiner Branth, Pallw ^e   Basnet, Sudha ^d   Adhikari, Ramesh K ^d   Hvidsten, Dag ^f   Shrestha, Prakash S ^d   Sommerfelt, Halvor ^a,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Sykehuset Innlandet Lillehammer ^*  (Norway)

^c TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Nepal)

^d TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

^e STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^g NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; HUMIDITY; INFANT; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; INFLUENZA VIRUS B; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOPHARYNGEAL ASPIRATION; NEPAL; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS 1; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS 2; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS 3; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA VIRUS INFECTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; URBAN AREA; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; NASOPHARYNX; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RNA VIRUS; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NASOPHARYNX; NEPAL; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; PREVALENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA VIRUSES; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 68949219603     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-7-35     Document Type: Article

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