Pan‐Viral Screening of Respiratory Tract Infections in Adults With and Without Asthma Reveals Unexpected Human Coronavirus and Human Rhinovirus Diversity
The Journal of Infectious Diseases2007Vol. 196(6), pp. 817–825
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Amy Kistler, Pedro C. Avila, Silvi Rouskin, David Wang, Theresa Ward, Shigeo Yagi, David Schnurr, Don Ganem, Joseph L. DeRisi, Homer A. Boushey
Abstract
The Virochip can detect both known and novel variants of viral pathogens present in RTIs. Given the diversity detected here, larger-scale studies will be necessary to determine whether particular substrains of viruses confer an elevated risk of asthma exacerbation.