Upper age limits of 12 and 24 months differentiated ... asthma (rhinovirus-associated disease) within a group of children suspected of having bronchiolitis. Inclusion of asthma-prone children ...
The symptoms of bronchiolitis can differ from bronchitis both in how the infection affects the respiratory system and based on the age groups in which the infections are found. Since bronchiolitis ...
HMPV virus is not a novel virus - It was first isolated in 2001 by Van den Hoogen and her colleagues in Netherlands in the ...
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Given the overlap in symptoms, laboratory testing is required to distinguish between RSV and HMPV, the gold standard for detecting both viruses. While quick antigen tests are available for RSV, their ...
Χ 2 test or Fisher exact test (when counts <5) were used for dichotomous data. Univariate associations between age and dichotomous dependent variables were studied using simple logistic regression.