RSV and HMPV seroprevalence in Tuscany (Italy) and North-Rhine Westfalia (Germany) in the winter season 2009/2010

Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 380-381

  Cusi, Maria G ^a   Terrosi, Chiara ^a   Kleines, Michael ^b   Schildgen, Oliver ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

HMPV; Human metapneumovirus; Human respiratory syncytial virus; RSV; Seroprevalence

Indexed keywords

DISEASE SEVERITY; GEOGRAPHY; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; ITALY; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SEROPREVALENCE; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION; WINTER;

ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INFANT; ITALY; MALE; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUSES; SEASONS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 80054783327     PISSN: 17502640     EISSN: 17502659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-2659.2011.00252.x     Document Type: Letter

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