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Isolation of Fidelity Variants of RNA Viruses and Characterization of Virus Mutation Frequency
Published on: June 16, 2011
Eight year study of viral isolates from cot deaths in Glasgow
W J Patrick1, D Carrington, A A Armstrong
1Department of Perinatal and Paediatric Pathology, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow, Scotland.
Scottish Medical Journal
|June 1, 1989
Abstract:
Over an eight year period 21 different viral strains excluding polioviruses were isolated in 44 (19%) of 237 cot deaths. The percentage of viral positive cases was significantly greater in over 16 week age groups and in cultures obtained less than 24 hours after death.

