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A two decade survey of respiratory adenovirus in Taiwan: the reemergence of adenovirus types 7 and 4.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Jun 2004
Lin Kuei-Hsiang, Lin Yung-Cheng, Chen Hsiu-Lin, Ke Guan-Ming, Chiang Chi-Jung, Hwang Kao-Pin, Chu Pei-Yu, Lin Jih-Hui, Liu Ding-Ping, Chen Hour-Young
Abstract excerpt
From November 1999 to December 2001, three outbreaks of adenovirus (Ad) respiratory infection occurred in southern Taiwan. To determine the circulating serotypes and molecular epidemiology, a total of 524 virus strains were randomly selected from 1,064 strains isolated from 1981 to 2001, and were studied using restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) and polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-RFLP. The major...
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