Epidemiology and prevention of pediatric viral respiratory infections in health-care institutions.

Nosocomial viral respiratory infections cause considerable illness and death on pediatric wards. Common causes of these infections include respiratory syncytial virus and influenza. Although primarily a community pathogen, rhinovirus also occasionally results in hospitalization and serious sequelae....

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Autor principal: Goldmann, D A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2001
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2631706/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11294717
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description Nosocomial viral respiratory infections cause considerable illness and death on pediatric wards. Common causes of these infections include respiratory syncytial virus and influenza. Although primarily a community pathogen, rhinovirus also occasionally results in hospitalization and serious sequelae. This article reviews effective infection control interventions for these three pathogens, as well as ongoing controversies.
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spelling pubmed-26317062009-05-20 Epidemiology and prevention of pediatric viral respiratory infections in health-care institutions. Goldmann, D A Emerg Infect Dis Research Article Nosocomial viral respiratory infections cause considerable illness and death on pediatric wards. Common causes of these infections include respiratory syncytial virus and influenza. Although primarily a community pathogen, rhinovirus also occasionally results in hospitalization and serious sequelae. This article reviews effective infection control interventions for these three pathogens, as well as ongoing controversies. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2001 /pmc/articles/PMC2631706/ /pubmed/11294717 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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Epidemiology and prevention of pediatric viral respiratory infections in health-care institutions.
title Epidemiology and prevention of pediatric viral respiratory infections in health-care institutions.
title_full Epidemiology and prevention of pediatric viral respiratory infections in health-care institutions.
title_fullStr Epidemiology and prevention of pediatric viral respiratory infections in health-care institutions.
title_full_unstemmed Epidemiology and prevention of pediatric viral respiratory infections in health-care institutions.
title_short Epidemiology and prevention of pediatric viral respiratory infections in health-care institutions.
title_sort epidemiology and prevention of pediatric viral respiratory infections in health-care institutions.
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2631706/
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