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| Provedor de dados: |
BJID
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| País: |
Brazil
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| Título: |
Frequency of viral etiology in symptomatic adult upper respiratory tract infections
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| 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
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| Data: |
2015-02-01
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| Ano: |
2015
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| Palavras-chave: |
Respiratory infection
Viral infection
Viral diagnosis
Epidemiology
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| 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.
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Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702015000100030
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| Editor: |
Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases
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| Relação: |
10.1016/j.bjid.2014.08.005
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text/html
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| Fonte: |
Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases v.19 n.1 2015
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| Direitos: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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