Epidemiology and clinical profile of pathogens responsible for the hospitalization of children in Sousse area, Tunisia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2017, Pages

  Brini, Ines ^a,b,c,d   Guerrero, Aida ^d   Hannachi, Naila ^a,b   Bouguila, Jihene ^b   Orth Höller, Dorothea ^d   Bouhlel, Amira ^b   Boughamoura, Lamia ^b   Hetzer, Benjamin ^d   Borena, Wegene ^d   Schiela, Britta ^d   Von Laer, Dorothee ^d   Boukadida, Jalel ^a,b   Stoiber, Heribert ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUSSE   (Tunisia)

^b Farhat Hached Academic Hospital   (Tunisia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

^d INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; RIBOSOME DNA;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ARTICLE; BRONCHIOLITIS; CHILD; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONAVIRIDAE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FREQUENCY; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; LARYNGITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; PARAMYXOVIRINAE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RESPIRATORY VIRUS; RHINOVIRUS; RHINOVIRUS INFECTION; RISK FACTOR; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TUNISIA; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; CORONAVIRINAE; GENETICS; HOSPITALIZATION; METABOLISM; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NEWBORN; PARECHOVIRUS; PATHOGENICITY; PNEUMOVIRUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESPIROVIRUS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; VIROLOGY;

ADENOVIRIDAE; BRONCHIOLITIS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORONAVIRUS; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LARYNGITIS; MALE; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PARECHOVIRUS; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUSES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RESPIROVIRUS; RHINOVIRUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TUNISIA;

EID: 85034221759     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0188325     Document Type: Article

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