Human Metapneumovirus-associated Atypical Pneumonia and SARS
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Human Metapneumovirus-associated Atypical Pneumonia and SARS
Acute pneumonia developed in a previously healthy man during the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in southern China in March 2003. Antibiotic treatment was ineffective, and he died 8 days after illness onset. Human metapneumovirus was isolated from lung tissue. No other pathogen was found. Other etiologic agents should thus be sought in apparent SARS cases when coronavirus i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Emerging Infectious Diseases
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1080-6040,1080-6059
DOI: 10.3201/eid1003.030513