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Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 1998 44(5):308-311; doi:10.1093/tropej/44.5.308
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Simultaneous Multiple Viral Infections in Childhood Acute Lower Respiratory Tract Infections in Southern Taiwan

Joh-Jong Huang, MD, MS*,, Teh-Yang Huang, MD, PhD**, Ming-Yii Huang, MD***, Bai-Hsiun Chen, MD****, Kuei-Hsiang Lin, PhD****, Jen-Eing Jeng, MD****, Jiunn-Ren Wu, MD** and Zen-Kong Dai, M.D, MS**

*Department of Family Medicine, Yuan's General Hospital Taiwan
**Department of Pediatrics, Kaohsiung Medical College Hospital Taiwan
***Department of Radiotherapy, Kaohsiung Medical College Hospital Taiwan
****Department of Clinical Pathology, Kaohsiung Medical College Hospital Taiwan

Dr Teh-Yang Huang MD, PhD, Department of Pediatrics, Kaohsiung Medical College No. 100, Shih-Chuan 1st Road. Kaohsiung City 807, Taiwan. Tel. 00 886 7 3313109; Fax 00 886 7 3213931

Thirty paediatric patients with acute lower respiratory tract infections (ALRI) caused by simultaneous multiple viral infections (SMV) in a 3-year interval were reviewed. Twenty patients were infected with two viruses simultaneously; nine patients with three viruses; and one patient with four viruses. The frequency of individual viruses were: adenovirus, 18 (60 per cent); respiratory syncytial virus, 7 (23 per cent); influenza virus type A, 6 (20 per cent); influenza virus type B, 15 (50 per cent); parainfluenza virus type 1, 11 (37 per cent); parainfluenza virus type 3, 13 (43 per cent). There was no difference between the clinical presentations of ALRI with SMV and those of ALRI with a single virus. In conclusion, SMV was not uncommon in children with ALRI; the clinical presentations of multiple viral infection were similar to those of single viral infection.


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