Disease burden of the most commonly detected respiratory viruses in hospitalized patients calculated using the disability adjusted life year (DALY) model
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Disease burden of the most commonly detected respiratory viruses in hospitalized patients calculated using the disability adjusted life year (DALY) model.
BACKGROUND The most common acute infections occur in the respiratory tract. Recent discoveries of several novel viruses have markedly increased the repertoire of agents understood to cause presentations of acute respiratory disease. OBJECTIVES Further understanding is needed of the relative importance of newly discovered pathogens in the clinical setting to provide clinicians with an indicati...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Virology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1386-6532
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2011.07.017