High seroprevalence of neutralizing capacity against human metapneumovirus in all age groups studied in Bonn, Germany

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 481-484

  Lüsebrink, Jessica ^a   Wiese, Christoph ^a   Thiel, Anne ^a   Tillmann, Ramona Liza ^b   Ditt, Vanessa ^a   Müller, Andreas ^a   Schildgen, Oliver ^a,b   Schildgen, Verena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Dipl Biologe   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; GERMANY; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFECTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROPREVALENCE; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, NEUTRALIZING; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GERMANY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77649268719     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00398-09     Document Type: Article

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