Prevalence of respiratory viruses in Iranian patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

CONCLUSION: Determining a correlation between the viruses and IPF is not an easy task, and therefore, this will require more research. In addition, the CLART Pneumovir DNA array can be considered as a useful method for simultaneous detection of several viral respiratory infections.
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Source: Journal of Medical Microbiology - October 25, 2017 Category: Microbiology Authors: Keyvani H, Moghoofei M, Bokharaei-Salim F, Mostafaei S, Javad Mousavi SA, Monavari SH, Esghaei M Tags: J Med Microbiol Source Type: research