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Genome analysis of adenovirus type 31 strains from immunocompromised and immunocompetent patients.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Feb 1991
Johansson M E, Brown M, Hierholzer J C, Thörner A, Ushijima H, Wadell G
Abstract excerpt
Adenovirus type 31 (Ad31) was isolated from 15 immunocompromised patients in 12 of whom seroconversion was also recorded. Ad31 infection has a substantial clinical relevance since 8 of 10 with lower respiratory tract infection and 4 of 4 with hepatitis died. Therefore, Ad31 isolates from immunocompetent and immunodeficient hosts were compared by restriction endonuclease analysis. Nine genome types were identified...
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