Laboratory-based surveillance of hospital-acquired respiratory virus infection in a tertiary care hospital

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Am J Infect Control. 2017 Feb 15. pii: S0196-6553(17)30014-7. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2017.01.009. [Epub ahead of print]
Laboratory-based surveillance of hospital-acquired respiratory virus infection in a tertiary care hospital.

Choi HS¹, Kim MN², Sung H³, Lee JY¹, Park HY¹, Kwak SH¹, Lim YJ¹, Hong MJ¹, Kim SK¹, Park SY¹, Kim HJ¹, Kim KR¹, Choi HR⁴, Jeong JS⁵, Choi SH⁶.
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Abstract

Of 7,772 laboratory-confirmed cases of respiratory viral infection among hospitalized patients, 22.8% were categorized as having hospital-acquired infection. The overall incidence of hospital-acquired respiratory viral infection was 3.9 (95% confidence interval, 3.7-4.1) cases per 1,000 admitted patients. Rhinovirus was the most common virus (30.3%), followed by influenza virus (17.6%) and parainfluenza virus (15.6%).
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KEYWORDS:

Hospital-acquired viral infection; Respiratory virus; Transmission of respiratory virus

PMID: 28214160 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2017.01.009
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