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

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Editor, Senior Moderator
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]
[h=1]Laboratory-based surveillance of hospital-acquired respiratory virus infection in a tertiary care hospital.[/h] Choi HS[SUP]1[/SUP], Kim MN[SUP]2[/SUP], Sung H[SUP]3[/SUP], Lee JY[SUP]1[/SUP], Park HY[SUP]1[/SUP], Kwak SH[SUP]1[/SUP], Lim YJ[SUP]1[/SUP], Hong MJ[SUP]1[/SUP], Kim SK[SUP]1[/SUP], Park SY[SUP]1[/SUP], Kim HJ[SUP]1[/SUP], Kim KR[SUP]1[/SUP], Choi HR[SUP]4[/SUP], Jeong JS[SUP]5[/SUP], Choi SH[SUP]6[/SUP].
[h=3]Author information[/h]

[h=3]Abstract[/h] 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%).
Copyright © 2017 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.


[h=4]KEYWORDS:[/h] Hospital-acquired viral infection; Respiratory virus; Transmission of respiratory virus

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