An Intensive Care Unit Outbreak of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome due to Human Metapneumo Virus Infection

• Main Authors: Ankur Sinha MBBS (Author), Vignesh Ponnusamy MBBS (Author), Sushilkumar S. Gupta MBBS (Author), Hitesh Raheja MBBS (Author), Ravikaran Patti MBBS (Author), Parita Soni MBBS (Author), Namrita Malhan BDS (Author), Yu Shia Lin MD (Author), Yizhak Kupfer MD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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Human metapneumo virus is an emerging cause of upper and lower respiratory tract illness with increasing reports of a varied spectrum of disease over all age groups. We report an outbreak of 6 cases of human metapneumo virus infection in the intensive care unit of a metropolitan tertiary care center...