Health care transmission of a newly emergent adenovirus serotype in health care personnel at a military hospital in Texas, 2007

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 200, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1759-1765

  Lessa, Fernanda C ^a,b,h   Gould, Philip L ^b,c   Pascoe, Neil ^d   Erdman, Dean D ^c   Lu, Xiaoyan ^c   Bunning, Michel L ^e   Marconi, Vincent C ^f   Lott, Lisa ^g   Widdowson, Marc Alain ^c   Anderson, Larry J ^c   Srinivasan, Arjun ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

^d TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

^e USAF   (United States)

^f WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g Office of the Surgeon General ^*  (United States)

^h NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS; ADENOVIRUS 14; ADENOVIRUS INFECTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEROTYPE; UNITED STATES; VIRUS TITRATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 72849144123     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/647987     Document Type: Article

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