A prospective study of frequency of intra-hospital adenoviral infections in infants and pre-schoolers with low respiratory infections. The study compares patients using a shared room during 1996 with patients using individual rooms in 1997 and 1998. The percentage of patients with nosocomial infections was reduced from 72% in 1996 to 38% in 1998. The intra-hospital adenoviral infection was more frequent in individuals with previous patologies and was significantly associated with clinical worsening, global respiratory insuficiency and death, being larger in infants younger than 6 months and with previous bronchopulmonar pathologies.
Keywords: Adenovirus infection, hospital acquired infection. |
