Viruses are frequent causes of respiratory infection, and viral respiratory infections are significant causes of hospitalization, morbidity, and sometimes mortality in a variety of patient populations. Lung inflammation induced by infection with common respiratory pathogens such as influenza and respiratory syncytial virus is accompanied by increased lung production of prostaglandins and leukot...

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is one of the most prevalent causative agents of lower respiratory tract infections worldwide, especially in infants around 3 to 4months old. Infants at such a young age have maternally-transferred passive antibodies against RSV but do not have active immune systems efficient enough for the control of RSV infection. In order to elucidate age-specific profiles o...

Influenza virus and respiratory syncytial virus infection of viral respiratory disease has become a major killer of mankind, but there is no effect of vaccines and therapeuticmdrugs. Chinese herbs can inhibit the proliferation and strengthen the human immune virus, and so on to play a very good antiviral activity. Singleflavor compound in accordance with two different drugs and the object of st...

Acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs) are among themost common reasons for visits to primary care pediatricians and emergency departments.1 Infections with respiratory syncytial virus, parainfluenza viruses, adenoviruses, rhinoviruses, human metapneumovirus, and Mycoplasma pneumoniae are frequently associated with wheezing, which leads to the clinical entities of bronchiolitis in infants a...

ARI: Acute Respiratory Infections; URTIs: Upper Respiratory Tract Infections; IVs: Influenza Viruses; RSV: Respiratory Syncytial Virus; PIVs: Parainfluenza Viruses; KIPyV: KI Polyomaviruses; WUPyV: WU Polyomaviruses; hMPV: human Metapneumovirus; KEMRI: Kenya Medical Research Institute; GC: Gonococci ; WHO: World Health Organization; CDC; Centers for Disease Control; cDNA: complimentary DNA; RT-...