Parainfluenza Virus Types 1-3 Infections Among Children and Adults Hospitalized With Community-acquired Pneumonia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Parainfluenza virus (PIV) is a leading cause of lower respiratory tract infections. Although there are several distinct PIV serotypes, few studies have compared the clinical characteristics and severity of infection among the individual PIV serotypes and between PIV and other pathogens in patients with community-acquired pneumonia.

Methods

We conducted active population-based surveillance for radiographically confirmed community-acquired pneumonia hospitalizations among children and adults in 8 US hospitals with systematic collection of clinical data and respiratory, blood, and serological specimens for pathogen detection. We compared clinical features of PIV-associated pneumonia among individual serotypes 1, 2, and 3 and among all PIV infections with other viral,

SUBMITTER: Howard LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8662767 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature