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Respiratory syncytial virus
Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology
Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences
Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection and its Subgroups Among the Hospitalized Young Children With Acute Respiratory Infection
Author(s):
1Infectious and Tropical Diseases Research Center, Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, IR Iran
2College of Medicine, Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, IR Iran
3Food and Drug Deputy of Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, IR Iran
Published online:Sep 30, 2013
Article type:Research Article
Received:May 20, 2012
Accepted:Dec 14, 2012
How to Cite:Seyed Mohammad AlaviManoochehr MakvandiSaeid Najafi FardLeila AlaviHuman Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection and its Subgroups Among the Hospitalized Young Children With Acute Respiratory Infection.Jundishapur J Microbiol.6(8):6452.https://doi.org/10.5812/jjm.6452.
Abstract
Objectives:
This study was conducted to determine the incidence of RSV infection and its subgroups among children with ARI.
Materials and Methods:
A total of 100 throat samples were collected from hospitalized children with ARI in different hospitals across the Khuzestan province from June 2009 to April 2010. The samples were tested for RSV by the nested PCR. The product of positive RSV was sequenced to determine the RSV subgroup, followed by phylogenic tree.
Results:
Of total 100 patients, 29 (29%) including 16 (16%) male and 13 (13%) female were found positive for RSV infection. All the RSV positive patients were subgroup A dominant. High prevalence of RSV (8%) was found among the children under one year in contrast to 2% RSV incidence among the age group 6 years.
Conclusions:
This study revealed that RSV subgroup A is dominant among the young children especially in children less than one year of age.
Copyright
© 2013, Author(s). This open-access article is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which allows for unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.
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