| [prevalence of human metapneumovirus infection in hospital wards handling patients with severe motor and intellectual disabilities]. | epidemics of infectious diseases often occur in hospital wards handling patients with severe motor and intellectual disabilities. however, the causative pathogens are not identified in half of these epidemics. recently, an epidemic occurred in 2 wards consecutively in the national hospital organization ehime hospital in march-april, 2010. in this epidemic, 18 of 40 patients in one ward and 14 of 60 patients in another ward showed symptoms, and human metapneumovirus (hmpv) was detected from phary ... | 2012 | 22606877 |