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. 2012 Feb;50(2):506-8.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.05999-11. Epub 2011 Nov 23.

Picornavirus, the most common respiratory virus causing infection among patients of all ages hospitalized with acute respiratory illness

Robert L Atmar  1 , Pedro A Piedra, Shital M Patel, Stephen B Greenberg, Robert B Couch, W Paul Glezen
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Picornavirus, the most common respiratory virus causing infection among patients of all ages hospitalized with acute respiratory illness

Robert L Atmar et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2012 Feb.

Abstract

We evaluated the prevalence of respiratory virus infection (RVI) in 403 illnesses of 364 persons hospitalized over a 2-year period with acute respiratory conditions using virus-specific reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) assays in addition to cell culture and serology. RVIs were identified in >75% of children under 5 years of age and 25 to 37% of adults. The molecular assays doubled the number of infections identified; picornaviruses were the most frequent in patients of all ages, followed by respiratory syncytial virus and influenza viruses.

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