Respiratory virus behavior: Results of laboratory-based epidemiological surveillance.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Respiratory viruses have clinical and epidemiological importance. With the COVID-19 pandemic, interest has focused on SARS-CoV-2, but as a result, the number of samples available for the differential diagnosis of other respiratory viruses has increased.

Study design

Cross-sectional study.

Objective

To describe the epidemiological behavior of respiratory viruses based on a laboratory-based epidemiological surveillance system using data from 2017 to 2023.

Methods

Univariate, bivariate and multivariate analyses of data from a laboratory database of respiratory viruses detected by multiplex RT‒qPCR were performed.

Results

A total of 4,632 samples with positive results for at least 1 respiratory virus, not including influenza or SARS-CoV-2, were an

SUBMITTER: Hernandez Bautista PF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11449343 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature