Mixed Respiratory Viral Infections in Children with Adenoviral Infections

Mixed Respiratory Viral Infections in Children with Adenoviral Infections

Human adenoviruses are a common cause of diseases. While epidemic diseases caused by adenoviruses were observed throughout the first half of the 20th century, the viruses were first noted in explant cultures of human adenoidal surgical specimens in 1953; this finding, plus the observation of their apparent general affinity for lymphatic tissue, led to naming designation [1, 2]. More than 50 ser...

Frequency and clinical outcome of respiratory viral infections and mixed viral-bacterial infections in children with cancer, fever and neutropenia.

BACKGROUND The role of respiratory viral infections (RVIs) as a cause of overall fever and neutropenia (FN) episodes in children with cancer has been less characterized than bacterial infections. We conducted a study aimed to determine the frequency of RVI in children with low compared with high risk for invasive bacterial infection (IBI) FN episodes and compare the clinical outcome of RVI and ...

Severe Viral Respiratory Tract Infections in Children

Respiratory adenoviral infections in Taiwanese children: a hospital-based study.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Adenoviruses are a common etiology of respiratory tract infections in children, with several serotypes responsible for most epidemic respiratory infections. This study examined the molecular epidemiology and clinical features of pediatric adenoviral infections in a 1-year period. METHODS From May 1999 to April 2000, virus specimens collected from children with respirato...

Epidemiological and clinical evaluation of children with respiratory virus infections

  Background :Respiratory viruses are the leading cause of respiratory tract infections among children and are responsible for causing morbidity and mortality worldwide. This study was performed to detect viruses in children with respiratory infections and describe their epidemiology and clinical characteristics.   Methods : In this descriptive cross sectional study, throat swabs and wash speci...