Is there still room for novel viral pathogens in pediatric respiratory tract infections?

Viruses are the most frequent cause of respiratory disease in children. However, despite the advanced diagnostic methods currently in use, in 20 to 50% of respiratory samples a specific pathogen cannot be detected. In this work, we used a metagenomic approach and deep sequencing to examine respirato...

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Main Authors: Blanca Taboada, Marco A Espinoza, Pavel Isa, Fernando E Aponte, María A Arias-Ortiz, Jesús Monge-Martínez, Rubén Rodríguez-Vázquez, Fidel Díaz-Hernández, Fernando Zárate-Vidal, Rosa María Wong-Chew, Verónica Firo-Reyes, Carlos N del Río-Almendárez, Jesús Gaitán-Meza, Alberto Villaseñor-Sierra, Gerardo Martínez-Aguilar, Ma del Carmen Salas-Mier, Daniel E Noyola, Luis F Pérez-Gónzalez, Susana López, José I Santos-Preciado, Carlos F Arias
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4239085?pdf=render