Chest
Volume 154, Issue 5, November 2018, Pages 1213-1222
Recent Advances in Chest MedicineTesting for Respiratory Viruses in Adults With Severe Lower Respiratory Infection
Key Words
diagnostic testing
pneumonia
viral disease
Abbreviations
CAP
community-acquired pneumonia
CDC
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
LRTI
lower respiratory tract infection
PCR
polymerase chain reaction
PCT
procalcitonin
RSV
respiratory syncytial virus
RT-PCR
reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction
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FUNDING/SUPPORT: J. M. W. is supported by Northwestern University's Lung Sciences Training Program [Grant 5T32HL076139-13] and a Dixon Translational Research Grant. R. G. W. is supported by NIH/NIAID [Grant 1U19AI135964-01].
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