Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection is a significant cause of hospitalization of children
in North America and one of the leading causes of death of infants less than 1 year of age …

Human rhinoviruses (HRVs), first discovered in the 1950s, are responsible for more than
one-half of cold-like illnesses and cost billions of dollars annually in medical visits and …

Background Notwithstanding the clinical hallmarks of COVID-19 patients were reported,
several critical issues still remain mysterious, ie, prognostic factors for COVID-19 including …

Background. The identification of multiple viruses during respiratory illness is increasing with
advances in rapid molecular testing; however, the epidemiology of respiratory viral …

Two meetings, one sponsored by the Wellcome Trust in 2012 and the other by the Global
Virology Foundation in 2013, assembled academic, public health and pharmaceutical …

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) causes a spectrum of illness.
We evaluated whether cycle threshold (C t) values (which are inversely related to virus load) …

Newborn infants, including those born at term without congenital disorders, are at high risk
of severe disease from respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection. Indeed, our current local …

During the past decade, several new respiratory viruses and their subgroups have been
discovered. All these new viruses, as well as previously known respiratory viruses, can be …

Background. The etiologic inference of identifying a pathogen in the upper respiratory tract
(URT) of children with pneumonia is unclear. To determine if viral load could provide …

We compared the FilmArray RP (Idaho Technology, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT) and the xTAG
RVP (Luminex Corporation, Toronto, Canada) multiplex respiratory virus PCR methods for …