Detection of human metapneumovirus in infants with acute respiratory tract infection

Molecular Medicine Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 267-271

  Mammas, Ioannis N ^a   Koutsaftiki, Chryssie ^a   Nika, Elisabeth ^a   Vagia, Fotini ^a   Zaravinos, Apostolos ^c   Priftis, Kostas N ^a   Voyatzi, Aliki ^a   Theodoridou, Maria ^b   Myriokefalitakis, Nikolaos ^a   Spandidos, Demetrios A ^c  

^a PENTELI CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acute respiratory tract infection; Greece; Human metapneumovirus; Infants

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COUGHING; CROUP; DIARRHEA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ETHNICITY; FEEDING DISORDER; FEMALE; FEVER; GREECE; HUMAN; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT DISEASE; IRRITABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; NOSE SMEAR; OXYGEN THERAPY; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PHARYNGITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTION; RHINITIS; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; VIRAL BRONCHIOLITIS; VIRAL RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIRAL UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; VOMITING; WHEEZING;

ACUTE DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS;

HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS; RICE STRIPE VIRUS;

EID: 79551691239     PISSN: 17912997     EISSN: 17913004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/mmr.2011.416     Document Type: Article

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