| Title | Human Rhinovirus Types and Association with Respiratory Symptoms During the First Year of Life. | ||
| Author | Muller, Loretta; Mack, Ines; Tapparel, Caroline; Kaiser, Laurent; Alves, Marco P; Kieninger, Elisabeth; Frey, Urs; Regamey, Nicolas; Latzin, Philipp | ||
| Journal | Pediatr Infect Dis J | Publication Year/Month | 2015-Aug |
| PMID | 26020408 | PMCID | -N/A- |
| Affiliation | 1.From the *University Children's Hospital (UKBB), University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; daggerPediatric Respiratory Medicine, Inselspital and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; double daggerLaboratory of Virology, Division of Infectious Diseases, University Hospitals of Geneva, Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland; and section signDepartment of Clinical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. | ||
Human rhinoviruses (HRV) cause respiratory infections and are associated with asthma development. We assessed HRV prevalence, types and association with respiratory symptoms in the first year of life in 20 unselected infants. HRV was detected in 32% of 825 weekly nasal swabs. Seventy-four different types of all three species were identified. HRV presence and related respiratory symptoms are highly heterogeneous.