Editorial Commentary: Missing the Forest for the Trees: Respiratory Viral Assays in Patients with Kawasaki Disease

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 65-66

  Rowley, Anne H ^a,b   Shulman, Stanford T ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FROZEN SECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN ADENOVIRUS; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; NASOPHARYNGEAL ASPIRATION; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS REACTIVATION;

EID: 84871214755     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cis811     Document Type: Note

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