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Provedor de dados: 	55	
País: 	Brazil	
Título: 	Frequency of viral etiology in symptomatic adult upper respiratory tract infections	
Autores: 	Silva,Raquel Cirlene da; Mendes,Gabriella da Silva; Rojas,Miguel Angel; Amorim,Ariane Ribeiro; Couceiro,José Nelson; Lupi,Omar; Elabras,José; Pires,Gisele; Valle,Solange; Santos,Norma.	
Data: 	2015-02-01	
Ano: 	2015	
Palavras-chave: 	Respiratory infection; Viral infection; Viral diagnosis; Epidemiology.	
Resumo: 	Aims: To determine the frequency of viral pathogens causing upper respiratory tract infections in non-hospitalized, symptomatic adults in the city of Rio de Janeiro.Methods:Respiratory samples (nasal/throat swabs) were collected between August 2010 and November 2012 and real time PCR was used to detect different viral pathogens.Results:Viruses were detected in 32.1% (43/134) of samples from 101 patients. Speciﬁcally, 9% (12/134) were positive for HBoV, 8.2% (11/134) were positive for HAdV, 5.2% (7/134) were positive for HRV, and 1.5% (2/134) were positive for FLUBV or HMPV, as single infections. HRSV-A, HPIV-3, and HCoV-HKU1 were detected in one (0.75%) sample each. Co-infections were detected in 4.8% (6/134) of the samples. Peaks of viral infections were observed in March, April, May, August, and October. However, positive samples were detected all year round. Only 23.3% (10/43) of the positive samples were collected from patients with febrile illness.Conclusion:Results presented in this report suggest that respiratory viral infections are largely under diagnosed in immunocompetent adults. Although the majority of young adult infections are not life-threatening they may impose a signiﬁcant burden, especially in developing countries since these individuals represent a large fraction of the working force.	
Tipo: 	Info:eu-repo/semantics/article	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702015000100030	
Editor: 	Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases	
Relação: 	10.1016/j.bjid.2014.08.005	
Formato: 	text/html	
Fonte: 	Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases  v.19 n.1 2015	
Fonte: 	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess