Viral etiology of respiratory infections in children in southwestern Saudi Arabia using multiplex reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1348-1353

  Al Ayed, Mohamed S ^a   Asaad, Ahmed M ^a   Qureshi, Mohamed A ^a   Ameen, Mohammed S ^a  

^a NAJRAN UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ADENOVIRUS; AGE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM EXAMINATION; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BOCAVIRUS; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONAVIRUS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN RHINOVIRUS; INFANT; INFLUENZA VIRUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; MIXED INFECTION; MONKEYPOX VIRUS; NASOPHARYNGEAL SWAB; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS; PEDIATRICIAN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAUDI ARABIA; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; WHEEZING; COINFECTION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NEWBORN; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; VIROLOGY; VIRUS; VIRUS DISEASES;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COINFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SAUDI ARABIA; VIRUS DISEASES; VIRUSES;

EID: 84909988098     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: 16583175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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