Enterovirus D68 detected in children with severe acute respiratory illness in Brazil

Emerging Microbes and Infections

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Carney, Sharon ^a   Brown, David ^a   Siqueira, Marilda M ^a   Dias, Juarez P ^b   Da Silva, Edson Elias ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLARITHROMYCIN; OSELTAMIVIR; VIRUS PROTEIN;

BRAZIL; CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENTEROVIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS D68; FEVER; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MENINGITIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RESPIRATORY VIRUS; RESTLESSNESS; RHINORRHEA; TACHYCARDIA; VIRUS DETECTION; WHEEZING; ACUTE DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; ENTEROVIRUS D; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTION; GENETICS; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NASOPHARYNX; PHYLOGENY; VIROLOGY;

ACUTE DISEASE; BRAZIL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENTEROVIRUS D, HUMAN; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NASOPHARYNX; PHYLOGENY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84979800484     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22221751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emi.2015.66     Document Type: Letter

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