Cuevas Luis E, Nasser Abubaker M Ben, Dove Winifred, Gurgel Ricardo Q, Greensill Julie, Hart C Anthony
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK.
Emerg Infect Dis. 2003 Dec;9(12):1626-8. doi: 10.3201/eid0912.030522.
We describe the epidemiologic and clinical characteristics of 111 children attending clinics and hospitals in Aracaju, northeast Brazil, with acute respiratory infections attributable to human metapneumovirus (HMPV), respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), or both in May and June 2002. Fifty-three (48%) children were infected with RSV alone, 19 (17%) with HMPV alone, and 8 (7%) had RSV/HMPV co-infections.
我们描述了2002年5月和6月在巴西东北部阿拉卡茹的诊所和医院就诊的111名儿童的流行病学和临床特征,这些儿童患有由人偏肺病毒(HMPV)、呼吸道合胞病毒(RSV)或两者引起的急性呼吸道感染。53名(48%)儿童仅感染了RSV,19名(17%)仅感染了HMPV,8名(7%)患有RSV/HMPV合并感染。