Caroline Fayez Labib Shafik <br/><br/>
Viral etiology of lower respiratory tract inections among young children in Egypt using three laboratory techniques  /  
 المسببات الفيروسية لعدوى الجهاز التنفسى السفلى بتن الأطفال الصغار فى مصر باستخدام ثلاث تقنيات معملية 
Caroline Fayez Labib Shafik ; Supervised Magdi Ali Amin , Aymen Samir Yassin , Emad William Mohareb 
 - Cairo :   Caroline Fayez Labib Shafik ,   2013 
 - 96 P. :   charts , facsimiles ;   25cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Pharmacy - Department of Microbiology and Immunology 
<br/><br/> Lower respiratory tract inections (LRTIs) are responsible for a condsiderable number of deaths among children particularly in developing countries . In Egypt and the Middle East region there is a lack of data regarding the viral causes of LRTIs . In this study we aimed to identify the relative prevalence of various respiratory viruses that contribute to LRTIs in young children  
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Direct fluorescence assay  Lower respiratory tract inections  Pediatric