Rate of Seasonal Spread of Respiratory Syncytial Virus in a Pediatric Hospital
- 1 November 1997
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
- Vol. 18 (11) , 778-780
- https://doi.org/10.1086/647538
Abstract
The rate of nosocomial respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection was measured in a large pediatric hospital using an incidence density method. The at-risk days for nosocomial RSV were summed during a defined winter period in which there were 54 admissions with community-acquired RSV infection giving a rate of 2.9 cases per 1,000 at-risk days (95% confidence interval, 0.3-5.4 per 1,000).Keywords
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