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Nosocomial outbreak of respiratory syncytial virus subgroup B variants with the 60 nucleotides-duplicated G protein gene.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Sept 2004
Nagai Kazushige, Kamasaki Hotaka, Kuroiwa Yuki, Okita Lisa, Tsutsumi Hiroyuki
Abstract excerpt
In January 2001, 20 children among 40 residents under 2 years old at a nursery home in Sapporo, Japan had respiratory symptoms and were confirmed as having respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection by a conventional diagnostic kit. Nasopharyngeal aspirates were collected from four RSV-positive patients and total RNA was extracted directly from the specimens for the analysis of RSV grouping and genotyping. All...
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