Résumé
Human adenovirus (HAdV) is one of the common pathogens causing human respiratory infections and HAdV infection can result in a variety of diseases. In recent years, outbreaks of HAdV infection have been detected from time to time in China and clustered severe cases have been reported in some regions. This technical guideline has been timely developed to provide technical support on the control and prevention of HAdV respiratory infections. It provides an overview of etiology, epidemiology, clinical manifestations, and treatment principles of HAdV infection, determines the definitions of laboratory-confirmed cases, clinically diagnosed cases, severe and critically severe HAdV pneumonia cases. Then the workflow of case detecting and reporting, and the outbreak epidemic disposal has been formulated. Finally, the control and prevention measures in places at high risk for HAdV transmission and individual preventive measures also has been introduced.