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Adenovirus surveillance on children hospitalized for acute lower respiratory infections in Chile (1988-1996).
Journal of medical virology - 1 Mar 2000
Larrañaga C, Kajon A, Villagra E, Avendaño L F
Abstract excerpt
Adenoviruses (Ad) play an important role in the etiology of acute lower respiratory tract infections (ALRI) in young children in Chile. Our aim was to correlate the clinical severity of the infections with the Ad strains isolated during surveillance over 8 years. From 1988 through 1996, nasopharyngeal aspirates (NPA) were obtained for viral isolation and immunofluorescence assay (IFA) from children under 2 years...
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