Human metapneumovirus and human coronavirus infection and pathogenicity in Saudi children hospitalized with acute respiratory illness

Annals of Saudi Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 523-527

  Al Hajjar, Sami ^a,b   Al Thawadi, Sahar ^a   Al Seraihi, Amal ^a   Al Muhsen, Saleh ^a,b   Imambaccus, Hala ^a  

^a KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE FEBRILE NEUTROPHILIC DERMATOSIS; ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ACUTE RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; ADENOVIRUS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; AUTUMN; BRONCHITIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL DYSERYTHROPOIETIC ANEMIA; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; COUGHING; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FEVER; GAUCHER DISEASE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEUKEMIA; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MIXED INFECTION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MYELOFIBROSIS; NASOPHARYNGEAL ASPIRATION; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NOSE CONGESTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SAUDI ARABIA; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASONAL VARIATION; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; VIRUS VIRULENCE; WHEEZING; WINTER;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; INFANT; MALE; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; SAUDI ARABIA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 80052879398     PISSN: 02564947     EISSN: 09754466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0256-4947.84633     Document Type: Article

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