Volume 18, Number 11—November 2012
Dispatch
Fatal Respiratory Infections Associated with Rhinovirus Outbreak, Vietnam
Le Thanh Hai, Vu Thi Ngoc Bich, Le Kien Ngai, Nguyen Thi Ngoc Diep, Phan Huu Phuc, Viet Pham Hung, Walter R. Taylor, Peter Horby, Nguyen Thanh Liem, and Heiman F.L. Wertheim
Table
Detected viruses in respiratory specimens from hospitalized children, children at the outbreak orphanage, and children from the control orphanage, Hanoi, Vietnam, December 2007–February 2008*
| Viral diagnosis† |
Outbreak orphanage infants
|
Control orphanage infants
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. (%) hospitalized, n = 12 | No. (%) not hospitalized, n = 43 | No. (%) not hospitalized, n = 40 | ||
| Single infection | ||||
|
Rhinovirus |
10 (83.3) | 19 (44.2) | 4 (10.0) | |
|
Adenovirus |
0 | 0 | 6 (15.0) | |
|
RSV |
0 | 2 (4.7) | 0 | |
| Co-infection, 2 pathogens | ||||
|
Rhinovirus and adenovirus |
0 | 2 (4.7) | 4 (10.0) | |
|
Rhinovirus and RSV |
0 | 4 (9.3) | 1 (2.5) | |
|
Rhinovirus and parainfluenzavirus |
0 | 1 (2.3) | 0 | |
| Co-infection, 3 pathogens | ||||
|
Rhinovirus, adenovirus, and RSV |
2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Any rhinovirus | 12 (100) | 26 (60.5) | 9 (22.5)‡ | |
*RSV, respiratory syncytial virus.
†By multiplex reverse transcription PCR (Seeplex RV12; Seegene, Seoul, South Korea).
‡χ2 test p = 0.0005
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