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Nosocomial transmission of parainfluenza 3 virus in hematological patients characterized by molecular epidemiology
Author(s) -
Lee A.V.,
Bibby D.F.,
Oakervee H.,
Rohatiner A.,
UshiroLumb I.,
Clark D.A.,
Mattes F.M.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
transplant infectious disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.69
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1399-3062
pISSN - 1398-2273
DOI - 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2011.00603.x
Subject(s) - medicine , outbreak , epidemiology , molecular epidemiology , transmission (telecommunications) , virology , sequence homology , virus , hematology , genotype , base sequence , biology , genetics , gene , electrical engineering , engineering
A.V. Lee, D.F. Bibby, H. Oakervee, A. Rohatiner, I. Ushiro‐Lumb, D.A. Clark, F.M. Mattes. Nosocomial transmission of parainfluenza 3 virus in hematological patients characterized by molecular epidemiology.
Transpl Infect Dis 2011: 13: 433–437. All rights reserved Abstract: We report an outbreak of parainfluenza 3 virus involving 17 hematology–oncology patients on 2 hospital wards. Sequence analysis of clinical samples confirmed homology of strains for 16/17 patients and 1 healthcare worker. Epidemiological analysis of the outbreak supported the molecular data with nosocomial transmission of the same genetic strain as the cause of the outbreak.