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Antigenic and genomic characterization of adenovirus associated to respiratory infections in children living in Northeast Brazil.
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - 1 Dec 2007
Moura Fernanda E A, Mesquita Jacó R L de, Portes Silvana A R, Ramos Eduardo A G, Siqueira Marilda M
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From January to December 1998, nasopharyngeal aspirates were obtained from 482 children with acute respiratory infections attended in emergence department and wards of a teaching hospital in the city of Salvador, Brazil. The samples were tested for the presence of adenovirus by isolation in tissue culture and indirect immunofluorescence assay. Eleven adenoviruses were detected by both methods in the same clinical...
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