Duration of shedding of respiratory syncytial virus in a community study of Kenyan children
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- 22 January 2010
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 10 (1) , 15
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-10-15
Abstract
Our understanding of the transmission dynamics of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection will be better informed with improved data on the patterns of shedding in cases not limited only to hospital admissions.Keywords
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