Genetic diversity of human adenovirus in hospitalized children with severe acute lower respiratory infections in Paraguay
Date of publishing
2012-01-23Type of publication
otherSubject(s)
Adenovirus humanos
Análisis de secuencia de ADN
Infecciones del sistema respiratorio
Infecciones por adenovirus humanos
Lactante
Niño hospitalizado
Variación genética
Adenoviruses, human
Sequence analysis, DNA
Respiratory tract infections
Adenovirus infections, human
Infant
Child, hospitalized
Genetic variation
Análisis de secuencia de ADN
Infecciones del sistema respiratorio
Infecciones por adenovirus humanos
Lactante
Niño hospitalizado
Variación genética
Adenoviruses, human
Sequence analysis, DNA
Respiratory tract infections
Adenovirus infections, human
Infant
Child, hospitalized
Genetic variation
Abstract
Adenoviruses (AdVs), members of the family Adenoviridae, belong to a complex group of viral pathogens that infect many species of vertebrates and cause a broad range of clinical manifestations in humans, compromising the respiratory, gastrointest...
Section snippets. Funding. This work was funded in part by a fellowship to Daniel Benítez from the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT), Paraguay.
Competing interests. There are no competing interests.
Ethical approval. This protocol was approved by the Ethical Committee of the Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud, under the following number: C45/2011...