Human metapneumovirus infection in wild mountain gorillas, Rwanda

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 711-713

  Palacios, Gustavo ^a   Lowenstine, Linda J ^b   Cranfield, Michael R ^b   Gilardi, Kirsten V K ^b   Spelman, Lucy ^c   Lukasik Braum, Magda ^c   Kinani, Jean Felix ^c   Mudakikwa, Antoine ^d   Nyirakaragire, Elisabeth ^d   Bussetti, Ana Valeria ^a   Savji, Nazir ^a   Hutchison, Stephen ^e   Egholm, Michael ^e   Ian Lipkin, W ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project   (United States)

^d Rwanda Development Board   (Rwanda)

^e 454 Life Sciences ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; AUTOPSY; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GORILLA; HISTIOCYTOSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS INFECTION; LARYNGITIS; LUNG CONGESTION; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MALE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RWANDA; TRACHEITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION;

EID: 79953694173     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1704.100883     Document Type: Article

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