المؤلفون: Eun Kyeong Kang, Han Su Seon, Hee Sup Kim, Dohyun Kim, Sung Ju Min, Jung Sook Song, Jang Hwan Choi

المصدر: Korean Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. 18:154

مصطلحات موضوعية: Palivizumab, Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, business.industry, Birth weight, Gestational age, Guideline, medicine.disease, Virus, Infectious Diseases, Lower respiratory tract infection, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, medicine, In patient, Respiratory system, business, medicine.drug

الوصف: Purpose : The aim of this study was to identify the clinical characteristics of lower respiratory tract infection due to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in young children and to provide information for an effective guideline for palivizumab administration in Korea. Methods : We reviewed medical charts of 167 patients under 3 years of age who were hospitalized in Dongguk University Ilsan Hospital for lower respiratory tract infection between January 2007 and February 2011. Diagnosis of the virus was made based on the multiplex real time polymerase chain reaction. Results : There were 113 patients who were infected by respiratory syncytial virus. 90 patients were term infants and 23 patients were preterm infants. No difference was shown between term and preterm infants except the days of admission which was 9.06.0 days and 12.621.0 days respectively. In the preterm group their mean age at the time of admission was 5.214.9 months and the mean gestational age was 33.14.3 weeks, and the mean birth weight was 2,152950 g. Only 4 patients were born under 28 weeks gestational age and were candidates for palivizumab administration. Conclusion : Most of the patients with severe RSV lower respiratory tract infection were term or near term infants who were not candidates for palivizumab prophylaxis. A nationwide study is needed to make a new risk stratified guideline for RSV prophylaxis for our country.

الوصول الحر: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::90bcd026abf706a92043854506f08fa5Test
https://doi.org/10.14776/kjpid.2011.18.2.154Test

المؤلفون: Dong Soo Kim, Kyung Hyo Kim, Ji Hong Kim, Chun Kang, Hyang Min Chung, Ki Soon Kim, Ki Hwan Kim

المصدر: Korean Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. 17:49

مصطلحات موضوعية: Respiratory tract infections, biology, business.industry, viruses, Human bocavirus, medicine.disease_cause, biology.organism_classification, medicine.disease, Virus, Infectious Diseases, Human metapneumovirus, Clinical diagnosis, Lower respiratory tract infection, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Immunology, Medicine, Rhinovirus, Respiratory system, business

الوصف: Purpose : The Purposes of this study are to identify the circulating etiologic viruses of acute lower respiratory tract infection in children and to understand the relation with clinical diagnosis. Methods : We obtained a total of 418 nasopharyngeal aspirates from children admitted for their acute lower respiratory tract infections at three tertiary hospitals in Seoul from September 2008 to March 2009. We performed multiplex RT-PCR to identify 14 etiologic viruses and analyzed their emerging patterns and clinical features. Results : Average age of patients was 16.4 months old and the ratio of male to female was 1.36. Viruses were detected in 56.2% of a total of 418 samples. Respiratory syncytial virus (35%) was the most frequently detected and followed by human rhinovirus (22%), human bocavirus, adenovirus, human metapneumovirus, parainfluenza virus, influenza virus and human coronavirus. Co-infection reached 21.9 % of positive patients. Conclusion : When we manage the patients with acute lower respiratory infectious diseases, we should remind the role of various viral pathogens, which might be circulating by seasons and by local areas.

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https://doi.org/10.14776/kjpid.2010.17.1.49Test

المؤلفون: Jung Ik Cho, Hyung Chul Choi, Ji Hyun Cho, Jong Duck Kim

المصدر: Korean Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. 7:193

مصطلحات موضوعية: Clinical study, medicine.medical_specialty, Infectious Diseases, Bronchiolitis, business.industry, Internal medicine, Lower respiratory tract infection, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, medicine, Respiratory system, medicine.disease, business, Virus

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https://doi.org/10.14776/kjpid.2000.7.2.193Test