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Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz ; 103(5): 417-422, Aug. 2008. graf, tab
Article in English | LILACS | ID: lil-491960

ABSTRACT

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is well recognized as the most important pathogen causing acute respiratory disease in infants and young children, mainly in the form of bronchiolitis and pneumonia. Two major antigenic groups, A and B, have been identified; however, there is disagreement about the severity of the diseases caused by these two types. This study investigated a possible association between RSV groups and severity of disease. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction was used to characterize 128 RSV nasopharyngeal specimens from children less than five years old experiencing acute respiratory disease. A total of 82 of 128 samples (64.1 percent) could be typed, and, of these, 78 percent were group A, and 22 percent were group B. Severity was measured by clinical evaluation associated with demographic factors: for RSV A-infected patients, 53.1 percent were hospitalized, whereas for RSV B patients, 27.8 percent were hospitalized (p = 0.07). Around 35.0 percent of the patients presented risk factors for severity (e.g., prematurity). For those without risk factors, the hospitalization occurred in 47.6 percent of patients infected with RSV A and in 18.2 percent infected with RSV B. There was a trend for RSV B infections to be milder than those of RSV A. Even though RSV A-infected patients, including cases without underlying condition and prematurity, were more likely to require hospitalization than those infected by RSV B, the disease severity could not to be attributed to the RSV groups.


Subject(s)
Child , Child, Preschool , Female , Humans , Infant , Male , Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections , Respiratory Tract Infections , Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Human/classification , Acute Disease , Brazil/epidemiology , Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Indirect , Nasopharynx/virology , Prevalence , Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction , RNA, Viral/genetics , Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections/epidemiology , Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections/virology , Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Human/genetics , Respiratory Tract Infections/epidemiology , Respiratory Tract Infections/virology , Seasons , Severity of Illness Index
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São Paulo; s.n; 2004. [117] p. tab, graf.
Thesis in Portuguese | LILACS | ID: lil-409006

ABSTRACT

As doenças do aparelho respiratório inferior (DARI) são responsáveis por altos índices de morbi-mortalidade em crianças em todo o mundo. O principal agente causador de DARI em lactentes é o vírus sincicial respiratório (VSR), que acomete, principalmente os lactentes no primeiro ano de vida. O perfil dos tipos e genotipos de VSR causadores de DARI e o papel dos anticorpos séricos do lactente ainda estão indefinidos. Este conhecimento é importante para o desenvolvimento de medidas terapêuticas e profiláticas eficazes.Throughout the world, lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) is responsible for high mortality rates among children. The main etiological agent of LRTI in infants is respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) that mainly involves infants in the first year of life. The profile of the types and genotypes of RSV that cause LRTI and the role of the infant's serum antibodies have yet to be fully clarified. This knowledge is important for the development of effective therapeutic and prophylactic measures...


Subject(s)
Humans , Male , Female , Infant , Antibodies/immunology , Respiratory Tract Infections/physiopathology , Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Human/classification , Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Human/genetics , Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Human/immunology , Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Human/pathogenicity , Genotype , Immunity, Maternally-Acquired/immunology
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Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz ; 96(2): 155-8, Feb. 2001. graf
Article in English | LILACS | ID: lil-281560

ABSTRACT

We analyzed the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) groups and their epidemiological pattern that were detected over the course of seven years in southern Brazil. The two RSV groups co-circulated each year, but frequencies of groups A and B varied both between and within yearly outbreaks. In 1991, group A predominated over group B (p=0.0016). RSV outbreaks analyzed showed a temperature-dependent pattern and no association with rainfall, similarly to other countries from southern South America. Knowledge of the variants is important in terms of both diagnosis and definition of a vaccine composition


Subject(s)
Humans , Infant , Child, Preschool , Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections/epidemiology , Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Human/isolation & purification , Brazil/epidemiology , Disease Outbreaks , Nasopharynx/virology , Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Human/classification , Seasons , Temperature
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Salvador; s.n; 2001. 196 p. tab.
Thesis in Portuguese | LILACS | ID: lil-559209

ABSTRACT

O presente estudo foi desenvolvido com o objetivo de contribuir para o conhecimento da prevalência viral em casos de infecções respiratórias agudas (IRA) em crianças de Salvador, assim como realizar a caracterização antigênica e genômica dos adenovírus e vírus sincicial respiratório (VSR) isolados. Um total de 482 casos de infecção respiratória aguda do ano de 1998 foram investigados quanto a etiologia viral através de imunofluorescência indireta e isolamento em cultura celular. Trinta adenovírus isolados em 1998, 1997 e 1996 foram submetidos soroneutralização e análise de restrição enzimática. Imunofluorescência indireta e ELISA foram utilizados para caracterização antigênica de VSR detectados em 1998 e 1999, respectivamente. A caracterização genômica de VSR foi realizada através da amplificação do gene da proteína G e posterior seqüenciamento de nucleotídeos. Cento e cinquenta e quatro casos de infecção respiratória aguda tiveram sua etiologia viral diagnosticada. Os vírus mais prevalentes em ordem decrescente foram o VSR, influenza A, parainfluenza 3, adenovírus, influenza B e parainfluenza 1. As IRA virais acometeram principalmente crianças até um ano de idade, do sexo masculino, e foram diagnosticadas predominantemente como infecção de vias aéreas superiores. Dos 30 Adenovírus analisados, dezoito eram Ad2, seis Adl, cinco Ad3 e um Ad5. A caracterização genômica dos Ad2 mostrou que circularam o genotipo D5 e uma nova variante genômica. Entre os Ad 1, circularam o genotipo DI e duas novas variantes genômicas. Representantes dos Ad3 e Ad5 foram os tipos genômicos 3f e 5#, respectivamente. Entre 84 VSR detectados em 1998,64 pertenciam ao grupo A e 14 ao grupo B. A análise genômica de 6 cepas de VSR mostrou a existência de vários genótipos circulantes em 1999. O VSR foi o vírus mais prevalente entre sete vírus investigados. Durante o mesmo período epidêmico houve a circulação de ambos...


Subject(s)
Humans , Child , Adenoviruses, Human/classification , Adenoviruses, Human/isolation & purification , Fluorescent Antibody Technique , Genome Components , Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections/epidemiology , Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Human/classification , Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Human/isolation & purification , Acute Disease , Antigens/classification , Respiratory Tract Infections/virology , Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections/virology
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Rev. cuba. med. trop ; 48(2): 136-7, mayo-ago. 1996.
Article in Spanish | LILACS | ID: lil-184526

ABSTRACT

Se detecto un alto numero de casos de enfermedades repiratorias agudas en ninos menores de 1 ano, ingresados en un hospital de Ciudad de La Habana. De 93 pacientes estudiados se obtuvieron 25 cepas del virus sincitial respiratorio. Los aislamientos virales fueron multiplicados en celulas HEP-2, y despues de observarse un efecto citopatico del 80 por ciento se clasificaron en subgrupos por la tecnica de immunofluorescencia indirecta del subgrupo A. Este tipo de estudio es el primero realizado en nuestro pais, lo cual nos permitio profundizar en la causa viral de estas enfermedades y conocer que durante el brote circulo el subgru-po A del virus sincitial respiratorio


Subject(s)
Humans , Infant, Newborn , Infant , Fluorescent Antibody Technique , Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Human/classification , Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Human/isolation & purification , Respiratory Tract Infections
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