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Prevalence of parainfluenza type 1 virus in Lucknow (India)
A Jain1, A Pande, R S Chowdhury
1Postgraduate Department of Microbiology, K. G. Medical College, Lucknow.
The Indian Journal of Medical Research
|March 1, 1990
Abstract:
A total of 568 children suffering from acute respiratory infections were studied from September, 1986 to June, 1988 using indirect immunofluorescence technique to know the frequency of infections caused by parainfluenza viruses 1 and 3. Though sporadic cases of parainfluenza 1 (2.5%) and parainfluenza 3 (3.2%) were seen round the year, and increase in cases of parainfluenza virus type 1 infection was observed only in October, 1987 in Lucknow.