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Incidence of viral respiratory infections in a prospective cohort of outpatient and hospitalized children aged ≤5 years and its associated cost in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Infectious Diseases, October 2015
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Title
Incidence of viral respiratory infections in a prospective cohort of outpatient and hospitalized children aged ≤5 years and its associated cost in Buenos Aires, Argentina
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BMC Infectious Diseases, October 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12879-015-1213-4
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Débora Natalia Marcone, Lizette O. Durand, Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner, Santiago Vidaurreta, Jorge Ekstrom, Guadalupe Carballal, Marcela Echavarria

Abstract

Although information about the incidence of viral respiratory illnesses and their associated cost can help health officials explore the value of interventions, data are limited from middle-income countries. During 2008-2010, we conducted a prospective cohort study and followed ~1,800 Argentinian children aged ≤5 years to identify those children who were hospitalized or who sought care at an emergency room with any acute respiratory infection sign or symptom (e.g., rhinorrhea, cough, wheezing, tachypnea, retractions, or cyanosis). Respiratory samples were obtained for respiratory syncytial virus, influenza, parainfluenza, adenovirus, and metapneumovirus testing by immunofluorescence and for rhinovirus by real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. The incidence of respiratory syncytial virus (24/1000 children-years), human metapneumovirus (8/1000 children-years), and influenza (8/1000 children-years) illnesses was highest among hospitalized children aged <6 months and decreased among older children. In contrast, the incidence of rhinovirus was highest (12/1000 children-years) among those aged 6-23 months. In the emergency room, the incidence of rhinovirus was 459; respiratory syncytial virus 352; influenza 185; parainfluenza 177; metapneumovirus 130; and adenovirus 73/1,000 children-years. The total cost of hospitalization was a median of US$529 (Interquartile range, US$362-789). Our findings indicate that respiratory viruses, in particular rhinovirus, respiratory syncytial virus, metapneumovirus, and influenza may be associated with severe illness causing substantial economic burden.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 84 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 20 24%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 14%
Researcher 11 13%
Other 6 7%
Student > Bachelor 4 5%
Other 13 15%
Unknown 18 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 25 30%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 5%
Immunology and Microbiology 4 5%
Other 13 15%
Unknown 25 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 January 2018.
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#7,636,119
of 23,924,386 outputs
Outputs from BMC Infectious Diseases
#2,529
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Outputs of similar age
#93,807
of 287,115 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Infectious Diseases
#56
of 164 outputs
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