Screening Pneumonia Patients for Mimivirus

Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus (APM), a virus of free-living amebae, has reportedly caused human respiratory disease. Using 2 newly developed real-time PCR assays, we screened 496 respiratory specimens from 9 pneumonia-patient populations for APM. This virus was not detected in any specimen, which...

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Autores principales: Dare, Ryan K., Chittaganpitch, Malinee, Erdman, Dean D.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2008
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Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2570813/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18325263
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1403.071027

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2570813/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18325263
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1403.071027

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