Human bocavirus as the cause of a life-threatening infection

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1179-1181

  Uršič, Tina ^a   Steyer, Andrej ^a   Kopriva, Silvester ^b   Kalan, Gorazd ^b   Krivec, Uroš ^c   Petrovec, Miroslav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; BOCAVIRUS; BOCAVIRUS INFECTION; BRONCHIOLITIS; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DISEASE COURSE; EMPHYSEMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; NASOPHARYNX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS LOAD;

BRONCHIOLITIS; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HUMAN BOCAVIRUS; HUMANS; INFANT; MEDIASTINAL EMPHYSEMA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARVOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PLASMA; PNEUMOTHORAX; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRAL LOAD;

HUMAN BOCAVIRUS;

EID: 79952332442     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02362-10     Document Type: Article

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