Abstract
This study of 592 children seen in our Emergency Department with radiographically confirmed communityacquired pneumonia (CAP) was designed to evaluate the role of rhinoviruses (RVs) in the disease. The respiratory secretions of each child were assayed using RVP Fast in order to detect 17 respiratory viruses, and the RV-positive samples were characterised by means of real-time polymerase chain reaction and sequencing. RVs were identified in 172 cases (29.0%): 48/132 children aged
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1637-1645 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases |
Volume | 31 |
Issue number | 7 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jul 2012 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Microbiology (medical)
- Infectious Diseases
- Medicine(all)