The molecular diagnosis of parechovirus infection: Has the time come?

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 362-363

  Landry, Marie L ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CHILD DEATH; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FATALITY; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LUNG PARENCHYMA; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PARECHOVIRUS; PARECHOVIRUS INFECTION; PICORNAVIRUS INFECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION;

AUTOPSY; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; INFANT; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; PARECHOVIRUS; PICORNAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS;

EID: 75749102583     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/649864     Document Type: Note

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