Etiological diagnosis for respiratory virus infections in children: Current status and challenges / 中国实用儿科杂志

ABSTRACT

Respiratory tract infection is one of the most common diseases in pediatric patients with various clinical presentation and severity ranges from mild upper respiratory tract illnesses to serious or fatal lower respiratory tract disease. Virus is one of the most common respiratory pathogens,especially in infants and young children. Rapidly establishing the viral etiology of a respiratory illness with high sensitivity and specificity is of important. In recent years,more and more new techniques and methods for viral etiological diagnosis have been developed. Advantages and short comes for various diagnostic techniques and methods in clinical practice are compared and discussed here for reference.respiratory infection; virus; child; etiological diagnosis