An outbreak of severe respiratory tract infection caused by human metapneumovirus in a residential care facility for elderly in Utrecht, the Netherlands, January to March 2010

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 17, Issue 13, 2012, Pages

  Wierik, M J Te ^a,b   Nguyen, D T ^b   Beersma, M F ^b   Thijsen, S F ^c   Heemstra, K A ^c,d  

^a Municipal Health Service Midden Nederland   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; PNEUMONIA; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESIDENTIAL CARE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROLOGY; THROAT CULTURE; VIRUS CULTURE;

EID: 84859150621     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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