ABSTRACT Background: Influenza continues to drive seasonal morbidity, particularly in settings with low vaccine coverage. Objectives: To describe the influenza cases and viral circulation among hospitalized patients. Methods: A prospective study based on active surveillance of inpatients with influenz...
ABSTRACT Objectives: The role of viral co-detection in children with severe acute respiratory infection is not clear. We described the viral detection profile and its association with clinical characteristics in children admitted to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) during the 2009 influenza A(H1...
INTRODUCTION Infections caused by respiratory viruses are important problems worldwide, especially in children. Human metapneumovirus (hMPV) is a respiratory pathogen and causes severe infections with nonspecific symptoms. This study reports the hMPV occurrence and dissemination in southern Brazil and c...
Resumen Introducción: La infección respiratoria aguda baja (IRAB) es uno de los principales problemas de salud pública en menores de 5 años en países en desarrollo. El objetivo de este estudio fue describir la incidencia, mortalidad y factores pronósticos en pacientes menores de 5 años con diagn...
Colombia fue uno de países más afectados por los eventos climáticos asociados al cambio y la variabilidad climáticos durante 2010; Bogotá fue una de las regiones más golpeadas por las inundaciones ocurridas durante dicho periodo. Por otro lado, se sabe poco sobre el efecto del cambio y la variabili...
The information on severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) that has been gathered up to this point has made it possible to prepare recommendations concerning the equipment needed to protect health workers responsible for patient care and for processing potentially infected samples. Protecting such perso...
