Viral etiologies of lower respiratory tract infections among Egyptian children under five years of age
Open Access
- 13 December 2012
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 12 (1), 350
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-12-350
Abstract
Lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI) are responsible for a considerable number of deaths among children, particularly in developing countries. In Egypt and the Middle East region, there is a lack of data regarding the viral causes of LRTI. In this study, we aimed to identify the relative prevalence of various respiratory viruses that contribute to LRTIs in young children. Although, nucleic acid-based methods have gained importance as a sensitive tool to determine the viral infections, their use is limited because of their prohibitive cost in low-income countries. Therefore, we applied three different laboratory methods, and presented the different virus prevalence patterns detected by each method.This publication has 38 references indexed in Scilit:
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