Use and interpretation of a rapid respiratory syncytial virus antigen detection test among infants hospitalized in a neonatal intensive care unit — Wisconsin, March 2015

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 64, Issue 31, 2015, Pages

  Elbadawi, Lina I ^a,b   Haupt, Thomas ^b   Reisdorf, Erik ^c   Danz, Tonya ^c   Davis, Jeffrey P ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Division of Public Health   (United States)

^c WISCONSIN STATE LABORATORY OF HYGIENE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIGEN;

CROSS INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS; IMMUNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTIONS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION;

ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC TESTS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUSES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84939436953     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6431a6     Document Type: Note

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