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Changing Epidemiology of Acute Viral Respiratory Infections in Hospitalized Children: The Post-Lockdown Effect
Several reports highlighted how public health measures aimed at limiting severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) circulation have likely contributed to reducing the circulation of other respiratory viruses, particularly during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. We evaluate...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9406795/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36010132 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9081242 |
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author | Maglione, Marco Pascarella, Antonia Botti, Chiara Ricci, Giuseppe Morelli, Fiorella Camelia, Fabiana Micillo, Alberto Calì, Camilla Savoia, Fabio Tipo, Vincenzo Giannattasio, Antonietta |
author_facet | Maglione, Marco Pascarella, Antonia Botti, Chiara Ricci, Giuseppe Morelli, Fiorella Camelia, Fabiana Micillo, Alberto Calì, Camilla Savoia, Fabio Tipo, Vincenzo Giannattasio, Antonietta |
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description | Several reports highlighted how public health measures aimed at limiting severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) circulation have likely contributed to reducing the circulation of other respiratory viruses, particularly during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. We evaluated the epidemiology of acute respiratory infections in a large cohort of hospitalized children during the third year of the pandemic (2021–2022). We retrospectively analyzed data from the health records of children (<14 years) hospitalized for acute respiratory infections between 1 July 2021 and 31 March 2022. A total of 1763 respiratory panels were collected. Overall, 1269 (72%) panels hadpositive results for at least one pathogen. Most positive panels (53.8%) belonged to patients aged 1–12 months. The most detected pathogen was respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) (57.8% of positive panels). The RSV peak occurred in November 2021. Nine hundred and forty-five (74.5%) panels were positive for one pathogen while three hundred and twenty-four (25.5%) showed multiple infections. Patients with multiple infections were significantly older than those with a single infection. The 2021–2022 peak of RSV infection in Italy occurred earlier than in the previous pre-pandemic seasons. A high number of children have been hospitalized because of acute viral infections also due to less aggressive viruses. |
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spelling | pubmed-94067952022-08-26 Changing Epidemiology of Acute Viral Respiratory Infections in Hospitalized Children: The Post-Lockdown Effect Maglione, Marco Pascarella, Antonia Botti, Chiara Ricci, Giuseppe Morelli, Fiorella Camelia, Fabiana Micillo, Alberto Calì, Camilla Savoia, Fabio Tipo, Vincenzo Giannattasio, Antonietta Children (Basel) Communication Several reports highlighted how public health measures aimed at limiting severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) circulation have likely contributed to reducing the circulation of other respiratory viruses, particularly during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. We evaluated the epidemiology of acute respiratory infections in a large cohort of hospitalized children during the third year of the pandemic (2021–2022). We retrospectively analyzed data from the health records of children (<14 years) hospitalized for acute respiratory infections between 1 July 2021 and 31 March 2022. A total of 1763 respiratory panels were collected. Overall, 1269 (72%) panels hadpositive results for at least one pathogen. Most positive panels (53.8%) belonged to patients aged 1–12 months. The most detected pathogen was respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) (57.8% of positive panels). The RSV peak occurred in November 2021. Nine hundred and forty-five (74.5%) panels were positive for one pathogen while three hundred and twenty-four (25.5%) showed multiple infections. Patients with multiple infections were significantly older than those with a single infection. The 2021–2022 peak of RSV infection in Italy occurred earlier than in the previous pre-pandemic seasons. A high number of children have been hospitalized because of acute viral infections also due to less aggressive viruses. MDPI 2022-08-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9406795/ /pubmed/36010132 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9081242 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Communication Maglione, Marco Pascarella, Antonia Botti, Chiara Ricci, Giuseppe Morelli, Fiorella Camelia, Fabiana Micillo, Alberto Calì, Camilla Savoia, Fabio Tipo, Vincenzo Giannattasio, Antonietta Changing Epidemiology of Acute Viral Respiratory Infections in Hospitalized Children: The Post-Lockdown Effect |
title | Changing Epidemiology of Acute Viral Respiratory Infections in Hospitalized Children: The Post-Lockdown Effect |
title_full | Changing Epidemiology of Acute Viral Respiratory Infections in Hospitalized Children: The Post-Lockdown Effect |
title_fullStr | Changing Epidemiology of Acute Viral Respiratory Infections in Hospitalized Children: The Post-Lockdown Effect |
title_full_unstemmed | Changing Epidemiology of Acute Viral Respiratory Infections in Hospitalized Children: The Post-Lockdown Effect |
title_short | Changing Epidemiology of Acute Viral Respiratory Infections in Hospitalized Children: The Post-Lockdown Effect |
title_sort | changing epidemiology of acute viral respiratory infections in hospitalized children: the post-lockdown effect |
topic | Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9406795/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36010132 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9081242 |
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