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Molecular and serological characterization of species B2 adenovirus strains isolated from children hospitalized with acute respiratory disease in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology - 1 Sept 2013
Kajon Adriana E, de Jong Jan C, Dickson Laura M, Arron Georgina, Murtagh Patricia, Viale Diana, Carballal Guadalupe, Echavarria Marcela
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Between September 2000 and November 2005, approximately 10% of the retrospectively examined human adenovirus (HAdV)-positive pediatric cases of acute respiratory disease (ARD) requiring hospitalization at the Hospital Nacional de Pediatria Juan P. Garrahan in Buenos Aires, Argentina, were found to have a HAdV-B2 infection. OBJECTIVE: To characterize genetically and antigenically the HAdV-B2 virus...
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