Clinical relevance of rhinovirus infections among adult hospitalized patients

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UNLABELLED: Human rhinovirus (HRV) is an emerging viral pathogen.

AIM: To characterize a group of patients admitted due to infection by this agent in a general hospital in Chile.

METHODS: Cases were identified by RT-PCR for 1 year through active surveillance of patients admitted with severe respiratory illness. Diagnosis was not available during hospitalization. Thirty-two cases were identified, 90% were ≥60 years old or had co-morbid conditions. Human rhinovirus-related admissions represented 23.7% of hospitalization due to severe acute respiratory infections among adults and ranked second to influenza (37.8%). Patients presented with pneumonia (68.8%), decompensated chronic lung conditions (21.9%), heart failure or influenza-like illness (6.3% each). Admission to intensive or intermediate care units was required by 31.2% and in-hospital mortality reached 12.5%. A CURB-65 score ≥3 was significantly associated to in-hospital mortality (p<0.05). Most patients received antibiotics (90%).

CONCLUSIONS: Human rhinovirus infections in elderly patients with co-morbid conditions are associated with hospitalizations, requiring critical or semi-critical antibiotics use. A high CURB-65 score was associated to in-hospital mortality.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2015

Erschienen:

2015

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:19

Enthalten in:

The Brazilian journal of infectious diseases : an official publication of the Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases - 19(2015), 2 vom: 19. März, Seite 118-24

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Fica, Alberto [VerfasserIn]
Dabanch, Jeannette [VerfasserIn]
Andrade, Winston [VerfasserIn]
Bustos, Patricia [VerfasserIn]
Carvajal, Ita [VerfasserIn]
Ceroni, Carolina [VerfasserIn]
Triantafilo, Vjera [VerfasserIn]
Castro, Marcelo [VerfasserIn]
Fasce, Rodrigo [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Adult
Hospitalization
Journal Article
Respiratory tract infections
Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction
Rhinovirus
Viral pneumonia

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Date Completed 13.01.2016

Date Revised 08.04.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.bjid.2014.10.003

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM244717591