Cohort Isolation and Cross-infection in Bronchiolitis

Launched by PRINCESS AMALIA CHILDREN'S CLINIC · Sep 26, 2011

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ClinConnect Summary

Acute bronchiolitis is a major cause for hospitalisation in young children during the winter season. Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is the most frequently identified virus, however with the use of new and highly sensitive molecular amplification methods, the role of other viral pathogens in bronchiolitis has been increasingly recognized. Various disease severity has been shown for a range of respiratory viruses, and double viral infection is relatively common, occurring in about 10-30% of hospitalised patients. There is no consensus, however, on the impact of such co-infection on d...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • patients under 2 years of age
• • hospitalized for bronchiolitis
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • bronchopulmonary disease
• • congenital heart defect,
• • congenital pulmonary disease,
• • Down's syndrome