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Severity of rhinovirus infection in hospitalized adults is unrelated to genotype.
American journal of clinical pathology - 1 Aug 2014
McCulloch Denise J, Sears Marti H, Jacob Jesse T, Lyon G Marshall, Burd Eileen M, Caliendo Angela M, Hill Charles E, Nix W Allan, Oberste M Steven, Kraft Colleen S
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OBJECTIVES: To determine whether rhinovirus (RV) species is associated with more severe clinical illness in adults. METHODS: Seventy-two RV-positive viral respiratory samples from adult patients were sequenced and analyzed phylogenetically after reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction of the region spanning the VP4 gene and 5' terminus of the VP2 gene. The clinical features and severity of illness...
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