Acute Lower Respiratory Tract Infections in Soldiers, South Korea, April 2011–March 2012

During April 2011–March 2012, we retrospectively reviewed medical records for South Korea soldiers to assess the etiology and epidemiology of acute viral lower respiratory tract infections. Adenovirus was the most commonly identified virus (63.2%) and the most common cause of pneumonia (79.3%) and h...

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Autores principales: Heo, Jung Yeon, Lee, Ji Eun, Kim, Hye Kang, Choe, Kang-Won
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4012816/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24750820
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2005.131692
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description During April 2011–March 2012, we retrospectively reviewed medical records for South Korea soldiers to assess the etiology and epidemiology of acute viral lower respiratory tract infections. Adenovirus was the most commonly identified virus (63.2%) and the most common cause of pneumonia (79.3%) and hospitalization (76.6%); 3 soldiers died of adenovirus-related illness.
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spelling pubmed-40128162014-05-09 Acute Lower Respiratory Tract Infections in Soldiers, South Korea, April 2011–March 2012 Heo, Jung Yeon Lee, Ji Eun Kim, Hye Kang Choe, Kang-Won Emerg Infect Dis Dispatch During April 2011–March 2012, we retrospectively reviewed medical records for South Korea soldiers to assess the etiology and epidemiology of acute viral lower respiratory tract infections. Adenovirus was the most commonly identified virus (63.2%) and the most common cause of pneumonia (79.3%) and hospitalization (76.6%); 3 soldiers died of adenovirus-related illness. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2014-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4012816/ /pubmed/24750820 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2005.131692 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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title Acute Lower Respiratory Tract Infections in Soldiers, South Korea, April 2011–March 2012
title_full Acute Lower Respiratory Tract Infections in Soldiers, South Korea, April 2011–March 2012
title_fullStr Acute Lower Respiratory Tract Infections in Soldiers, South Korea, April 2011–March 2012
title_full_unstemmed Acute Lower Respiratory Tract Infections in Soldiers, South Korea, April 2011–March 2012
title_short Acute Lower Respiratory Tract Infections in Soldiers, South Korea, April 2011–March 2012
title_sort acute lower respiratory tract infections in soldiers, south korea, april 2011–march 2012
topic Dispatch
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4012816/
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