Open AccessClinico demographic profiling of the Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infected children admitted in tertiary care hospital in North India
Author(s) -
Charu Singh,
Suresh Kumar Angurana,
Ishani Bora,
Neha Jain,
Kanwalpreet Kaur,
Sukanto Sarkar
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_2406_20
Subject(s) - medicine , bronchiolitis , respiratory distress , pediatrics , pneumonia , tertiary care , respiratory system , retrospective cohort study , respiratory tract infections , disease , lower respiratory tract infection , surgery
Acute bronchiolitis is fatal disease involving lower respiratory tract of infants and children of paediatric age group. Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is responsible for causing more than 70% hospital admissions of children aged less than 2 years thus making a necessity for accurate and timely diagnosis.