Respiratory syncytial virus-associated hospitalizations in Louisiana.
J La State Med Soc
; 164(5): 268-73, 2012.
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| ID: mdl-23362592
ABSTRACT
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the most common cause of bronchiolitis and pneumonia in children under one year of age worldwide. Records indicative of RSV cases were pulled from The Louisiana Inpatient Hospital Discharge Data based on RSV diagnosis codes to describe the burden of RSV infections in Louisiana from 1999 to 2010. Two thousand to three thousand hospitalized RSV cases occurred each year, with rates ranging from 37.2 to 71.4 hospitalizations per 100,000 population and the majority of cases (79%) being diagnosed with bronchiolitis. The vast majority of cases occurred in children under one year of age, and within that group, 44% of the cases occurred in children ages 0 to 3 months. The RSV season was found to occur from November to March, and immunoprophylaxis for high-risk infants should be given according to that season. Hospital-acquired versus community-acquired infections were also examined and most (96.1%) cases were community-acquired.
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Bases de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Infecciones por Virus Sincitial Respiratorio
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Hospitalización
Tipo de estudio:
Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Infant
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Male
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Newborn
País/Región como asunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J La State Med Soc
Año:
2012
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos