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Provedor de dados: | Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
País: | Brazil
Título: | Clinical relevance of rhinovirus infections among adult hospitalized patients
Autores: | Fica,Alberto; Dabanch,Jeannette; Andrade,Winston; Bustos,Patricia; Carvajal,Ita; Ceroni,Carolina; Triantaﬁlo,Vjera; Castro,Marcelo; Fasce,Rodrigo.
Data: | 2015-04-01
Ano: | 2015
Palavras-chave: | Rhinovirus; Respiratory tract infections; Viral pneumonia; Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction; AdultHospitalization.
Resumo: | Human rhinovirus (HRV) is an emerging viral pathogen.  Aim: To characterize a group of patients admitted due to infection by this agent in a general hospital in Chile.  Methods:  Cases were identiﬁed by RT-PCR for 1 year through active surveillance of patients admitted with severe respiratory illness. Diagnosis was not available during hospitalization. Thirty-two cases were identiﬁed, 90% were ≥60 years old or had co-morbid conditions. Human rhinovirus-related admissions represented 23.7% of hospitalization due to severe acute respiratory infections among adults and ranked second to inﬂuenza (37.8%). Patients presented with pneumonia (68.8%), decompensated chronic lung conditions (21.9%), heart failure or inﬂuenza-like illness (6.3% each). Admission to intensive or intermediate care units was required by 31.2% and in-hospital mortality reached 12.5%. A CURB-65 score ≥3 was signiﬁcantly associated to in-hospital mortality (p &lt; 0.05). Most patients received antibiotics (90%).  Conclusions:  Human rhinovirus infections in elderly patients with co-morbid conditions are associated with hospitalizations, requiring critical or semi-critical antibiotics use. A high CURB-65 score was associated to in-hospital mortality.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702015000200118
Editor: | Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases
Relação: | 10.1016/j.bjid.2014.10.003
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases  v.19 n.2 2015
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess