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Nosocoial respiratory syncytial virus infections in children's wards

Nosocomial infections with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are very common in children’s wards. In the 1985-94 period, in several separate and published studies we examined intrahospital RSV infections in the children’s wards of Zagreb hospitals. The present review portrays 10 years of effort dealing with this topic. We thus found virus nosocomial infections to account for 42 /174 (24.3%) of the acute respiratory ill inpatients aged up to 3 years in 1985. Nosocomial RSV infections made up 20.2% of the demonstrated respiratory viral infections. In the 1986/87 season, 20 of the 44 neonates were affected by a nosocomial RSV infection. Among RSV-positive neonates 45% had upper respiratory tract infections, 10% bronchiolitis, 20% pneumonia and 20% bronchitis. In the period 1988-94 we looked at RSV lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI) showing 42 patients of the 201( 21%) to have a hospital-acquired RSV- LRTI. Bronchitis was the most common diagnosis (20). The largest number of nosocomial infections (19) was observed in infants aged up to 6 months.

nosocomial infection; respiratory sincytial virus

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