Characteristics of human metapneumovirus infection prevailing in hospital wards housing patients with severe disabilities

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 195-200

  Matsuda, Shunji ^a   Nakamura, Masako ^b   Hirano, Eiko ^b   Kiyota, Naoko ^c   Omura, Tamaki ^d   Suzuki, Yumi ^e   Noda, Masahiro ^f   Kimura, Hirokazu ^f  

^a National Ehime Hospital   (Japan)

^b Fukui Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Science   (Japan)

^c Kumamoto Prefectural Institute of Health and Environmental Science   (Japan)

^d SHIMANE PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^e SHIMOSHIZU HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti metapneumovirus antibody; Human metapneumovirus; Monocyte; Pneumonia; Severe motor and intellectual disabilities

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BRONCHITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COUGHING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIC; FEVER; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; METAPNEUMOVIRUS INFECTION; MONOCYTE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NOSE SMEAR; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROAT CULTURE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WARD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NASAL CAVITY; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PHYLOGENY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878123200     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: 18842836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7883/yoken.66.195     Document Type: Article

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