QUANTITATION OF RESPIRATORY VIRUSES IN RELATION TO CLINICAL COURSE IN CHILDREN WITH ACUTE RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS
- 1 January 2010
- journal article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
- Vol. 29 (1) , 82-84
- https://doi.org/10.1097/inf.0b013e3181b6de8a
Abstract
Quantitation of respiratory viruses by PCR could potentially aid in clinical interpretation of PCR results. We conducted a study in children admitted with acute respiratory tract infections to study correlations between the clinical course of illness and semiquantitative detection of 14 respiratory viruses. Clinical improvement was associated with reduction of viral quantity after 3 days of hospitalization.Keywords
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