Respiratory viruses in patients and employees in an intensive care unit.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To evaluate the frequency of respiratory viruses in a nonselected population of intensive care unit patients and employees and to investigate the clinical as well as the epidemiological association with virological findings.

Methods

Between 12 January and 5 March 2009, nasopharyngeal swabs were collected from 55 intensive care unit (ICU) patients and 41 medical personnel at 16 different time-points and tested for 11 respiratory viruses by single real-time PCR using TaqMan or MGB probes.

Results

Among the 55 ICU patients tested, there were 30 virus-positive respiratory specimens (30/173, 17.3%) and 23 patients who tested positive at least once for respiratory viruses (23/55, 41.8%). Only the time from admission to the ICU was associated with the probability of

SUBMITTER: Stupica D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7099890 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature