Viruses are probably the most common cause of infectious disease acquired within indoor
environments and have considerable impact on human health, ranging from severe life …

BACKGROUND: Human rhinoviruses (HRVs) are the most common cause of viral illness
worldwide but today, less than half the strains have been sequenced and only a handful …

Hands often become contaminated with respiratory viruses, either directly or through contact
with contaminated surfaces. Spread of such viruses could then occur by touching the nasal …

Background. Rhinoviruses frequently cause the common cold but have not been considered
important causes of acute respiratory hospitalizations in children. Methods. A population …

Although viral upper respiratory infections (URIs) provoke wheezing in many asthma
patients, the effect of these illnesses on the airway response to inhaled antigen is not …

Background. Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in young children is most commonly
associated with viral infections; however, the role of viruses in CAP of school-age children is …

The viruses associated most frequently with the “common cold” are rhinoviruses and
coronaviruses. The first prospective cohort study to determine the prevalence of rhinovirus …

Rhinoviruses and enteroviruses are the major members of the picornavirus genus that
cause human disease. We compared the polymerase chain reaction and viral culture for the …

It has recently been reported that all but one of the 102 known serotypes of the genus
Rhinovirus segregate into two genetic clusters (C. Savolainen, S. Blomqvist, MN Mulders …

OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of human rhinoviruses (HRV) infections in
children with lower respiratory disease in Thailand and monitor the association between …