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The role of influenza, RSV and other common respiratory viruses in severe acute respiratory infections and influenza-like illness in a population with a high HIV sero-prevalence, South Africa 2012–2015
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December 19 2015
Source: J Clin Virol. 75:21-26
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Alternative Title:J Clin Virol
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Description:Background
Viruses detected in patients with acute respiratory infections may be the cause of illness or asymptomatic shedding.
Objective
To estimate the attributable fraction (AF) and the detection rate attributable to illness for each of the different respiratory viruses
Study design
We compared the prevalence of 10 common respiratory viruses (influenza A and B viruses, parainfluenza virus 1–3; respiratory syncytial virus (RSV); adenovirus, rhinovirus, human metapneumovirus (hMPV) and enterovirus) in both HIV positive and negative patients hospitalized with severe acute respiratory illness (SARI), outpatients with influenza-like illness (ILI), and control subjects who did not report any febrile, respiratory or gastrointestinal illness during 2012–2015 in South Africa.
Results
We enrolled 1959 SARI, 3784 ILI and 1793 controls with a HIV sero-prevalence of 26%, 30% and 43%, respectively. Influenza virus (AF: 86.3%; 95%CI: 77.7–91.6%), hMPV (AF: 85.6%; 95%CI: 72.0–92.6%), and RSV (AF: 83.7%; 95%CI: 77.5–88.2%) infections were associated with severe disease., while rhinovirus (AF: 46.9%; 95%CI: 37.6–56.5%) and adenovirus (AF: 36.4%; 95%CI: 20.6–49.0%) were only moderately associated.
Conclusions
Influenza, RSV and hMPV can be considered pathogens if detected in ILI and SARI while rhinovirus and adenovirus were commonly identified in controls suggesting that they may cause only a proportion of clinical disease observed in positive patients. Nonetheless, they may be important contributors to disease.
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Pubmed ID:26741826
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Pubmed Central ID:PMC5712432
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