Detection of human metapneumovirus genomes during an outbreak of bronchitis and pneumonia in a geriatric care home in Shimane, Japan, in autumn 2009

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 85-87

  Omura, Tamaki ^a   Iizuka, Setsuko ^a   Tabara, Kenji ^a   Tsukagoshi, Hiroyuki ^b   Mizuta, Katsumi ^c   Matsuda, Shunji ^d   Noda, Masahiro ^e   Kimura, Hirokazu ^b,e  

^a SHIMANE PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b GUNMA PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c YAMAGATA PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BRONCHITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; FEMALE; FEVER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GERIATRIC CARE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MALE; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; RESIDENTIAL HOME; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THROAT CULTURE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION;

AGED; BRONCHITIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GENOME, VIRAL; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOMES; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PHYLOGENY; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 79551602303     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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