Adenovirus Infection in Hospitalized Children with Acute Respiratory Infection in Jordan.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The most common clinical manifestation of adenovirus (AdV) infection is acute respiratory illness (ARI). Specific AdV species associated with ARI hospitalizations are not well defined in the Middle East.

Methods

A viral surveillance study was conducted among children <2 years hospitalized in Amman, Jordan, from March 2010 to March 2013. Nasal and throat respiratory specimens were obtained from enrolled children and tested for viruses using a real-time reverse-transcription quantitative polymerase chain reaction. AdV-positive specimens were typed by partial hexon gene sequencing. Demographic and clinical features were compared between AdV detected as single pathogen versus co-detected with other respiratory viruses, and between AdV-B and AdV-C species.

Results</

SUBMITTER: Probst V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8943843 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature