Polymicrobial acute respiratory infections in a hospital-based pediatric population.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The clinical impact of polymicrobial respiratory infections remains uncertain. Previous reports are contradictory regarding an association with severe disease.

Methods

Three hundred forty-six specimens from children with acute respiratory illness identified at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Clinical Microbiology Laboratory were evaluated by direct immunofluorescent assay and/or viral culture by Clinical Microbiology Laboratory and later by molecular study for the presence of influenza, parainfluenza, respiratory syncytial virus, adenovirus, human metapneumovirus, rhinovirus and human bocavirus. Demographic and clinical data were abstracted from medical records.

Results

Multiple viruses were detected in 46 (21.7%) of 212 virus-positive specimen

SUBMITTER: Chorazy ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3701747 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature