Sole infection by human metapneumovirus among children with radiographically diagnosed community-acquired pneumonia in a tropical region

Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 285-287

  Nascimento Carvalho, Cristiana M ^a   Cardoso, Maria Regina A ^b   Ruuskanen, Olli ^c   Lappalainen, Maija ^d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^d HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Acute respiratory infection; Lower tract respiratory infection; New respiratory virus; Respiratory viral infection

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ADENOVIRUS INFECTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTION; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MIXED INFECTION; NASOPHARYNGEAL ASPIRATION; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHINOVIRUS INFECTION; SOLE INFECTION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TACHYPNEA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TROPICS; VIRUS DETECTION;

BRAZIL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; NASOPHARYNX; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 79958725716     PISSN: 17502640     EISSN: 17502659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-2659.2011.00206.x     Document Type: Article

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