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Molecular Epidemiology and Brief History of Emerging Adenovirus 14–Associated Respiratory Disease in the United States
25 May 2010
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BACKGROUND: First isolated in the Netherlands in 1955 during an outbreak of acute respiratory disease (ARD) among military recruits, human adenovirus 14 (HAdV-14) has historically been considered rare. With no precedent of circulation in North America, HAdV-14 has been isolated from military and civilian cases of ARD of variable severity since 2003 in the United States. METHODS: Ninety-nine isolates from military...
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