Nenna Raffaella, Matera Luigi, Pierangeli Alessandra, Oliveto Giuseppe, Viscido Agnese, Petrarca Laura, La Regina Domenico Paolo, Mancino Enrica, Di Mattia Greta, Villani Alberto, Midulla Fabio
Department of Maternal Infantile and Urological Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Laboratory of Virology, Department of Molecular Medicine, Affiliated to Istituto Pasteur Italia, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Acta Paediatr. 2022 Jul;111(7):1399-1403. doi: 10.1111/apa.16326. Epub 2022 Mar 16.
Emergency room admissions have decreased globally during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly for respiratory diseases. We evaluated hospital admissions for respiratory diseases in the first year of the Italian pandemic and compared them with the corresponding period in 2016-2017.
The study was carried out at the Sapienza University in Rome, Italy, and covered 9 March to 28 February 2020-2021 and 2016-2017. We tested 85 hospitalised children who were negative for the virus that causes COVID-19 in 2020-2021 and compared them with 476 hospitalised children from 2016-2017, as we had also tested nasal washing samples for 14 respiratory viruses during that period.
Hospitalisations for acute respiratory tract infections were 82.2% lower in 2020-2021 than 2016-2017. The respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and several other viruses were detected less frequently during the pandemic. An extraordinary finding was that rhinoviruses remained seasonal. In 2020-2021, we detected a virus in 54.1% of the hospitalised children: rhinoviruses in 41, RSV in 4 and other viruses in 1. This was significantly lower than the 71.6% in 2016-2017: RSV in 130, rhinoviruses in 128 and other viruses in 83.
Pandemic measures dramatically reduced childhood respiratory infections, particularly RSV, but were less effective at reducing rhinoviruses.
在新冠疫情期间，全球急诊室就诊人数有所减少，尤其是呼吸道疾病患者。我们评估了意大利疫情第一年呼吸道疾病的住院情况，并将其与2016 - 2017年同期进行比较。
该研究在意大利罗马的萨皮恩扎大学开展，涵盖2020 - 2021年3月9日至2021年2月28日以及2016 - 2017年。我们对2020 - 2021年85名新冠病毒检测呈阴性的住院儿童进行了检测，并将他们与2016 - 2017年的476名住院儿童进行比较，因为在那段时间我们也对鼻洗液样本进行了14种呼吸道病毒的检测。
2020 - 2021年急性呼吸道感染的住院人数比2016 - 2017年降低了82.2%。在疫情期间，呼吸道合胞病毒（RSV）和其他几种病毒的检出频率较低。一个特别的发现是鼻病毒仍呈季节性。在2020 - 2021年，我们在54.1%的住院儿童中检测到一种病毒：41例为鼻病毒，4例为呼吸道合胞病毒，1例为其他病毒。这显著低于2016 - 2017年的71.6%：130例为呼吸道合胞病毒，128例为鼻病毒，83例为其他病毒。
疫情防控措施大幅减少了儿童呼吸道感染，尤其是呼吸道合胞病毒感染，但在减少鼻病毒感染方面效果较差。
