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Human Washington University Polyomavirus in Patients with Respiratory Tract Infection in Kuwait.
Medical principles and practice : international journal of the Kuwait University, Health Science Centre - 1 Jan 2017
Essa Sahar Sultan, Chehadeh Wassim, Al-Nakib Widad
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OBJECTIVE: To determine Washington University (WU) polyomavirus strains circulating among hospitalized patients with respiratory tract infections (RTI) in Kuwait. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Samples from 459 hospitalized children and adult RTI patients were screened for respiratory viruses by polymerase chain reaction from April 2013 to April 2016. The VP2 gene from WU virus (WUV)-positive samples was sequenced and...
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