Lay Myint Yoshida, Motoi Suzuki, Takeshi Yamamoto, Hien Anh Nguyen, Cat D Nguyen, Ai T Nguyen, Kengo Oishi, Thiem D Vu, Tho H Le, Mai Q Le, Hideki Yanai, Paul E Kilgore, Duc Anh Dang, Koya Ariyoshi
Hospitalized Vietnamese children with acute respiratory infection were investigated for 13 viral pathogens using multiplex-polymerase chain reaction. We enrolled 958 children of whom 659 (69%) had documented viral infection: rhinovirus (28%), respiratory syncytial virus (23%), influenza virus (15%), adenovirus (5%), human metapneumo virus (4.5%), parainfluenza virus (5%), and bocavirus (2%). These Vietnamese children had a range of respiratory viruses which underscores the need for enhanced acute respiratory infection surveillance in tropical developing countries...
January 2010: Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal