Respiratory viruses dynamics and interactions: ten years of surveillance in central Europe.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Lower respiratory tract infections are among the main causes of death. Although there are many respiratory viruses, diagnostic efforts are focused mainly on influenza. The Respiratory Viruses Network (RespVir) collects infection data, primarily from German university hospitals, for a high diversity of infections by respiratory pathogens. In this study, we computationally analysed a subset of the RespVir database, covering 217,150 samples tested for 17 different viral pathogens in the time span from 2010 to 2019.

Methods

We calculated the prevalence of 17 respiratory viruses, analysed their seasonality patterns using information-theoretic measures and agglomerative clustering, and analysed their propensity for dual infection using a new metric dubbed average coinfe

SUBMITTER: Horemheb-Rubio G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9187845 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature