Publications by authors named "Alea Sabry"
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to investigate the symptoms, duration, severity, and microbiology of lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI) in outpatients, utilizing a cohort of adults with cough complaints.
- Results indicated that viral infections were associated with less severe symptoms and shorter durations of cough compared to bacterial infections, with an average cough duration of 16.4 days across the cohort.
- The most common detected pathogens included viruses like rhinovirus and influenza, as well as bacteria such as Haemophilus influenzae and Moraxella catarrhalis, with mixed infections showing a higher incidence of severe symptoms.
School-based outbreaks often precede increased incidence of acute respiratory infections in the greater community. We conducted acute respiratory infection surveillance among children to elucidate commonly detected pathogens in school settings and their unique characteristics and epidemiological patterns. The ORegon CHild Absenteeism due to Respiratory Disease Study (ORCHARDS) is a longitudinal, laboratory-supported, school-based, acute respiratory illness (ARI) surveillance study designed to evaluate the utility of cause-specific student absenteeism monitoring for early detection of increased activity of influenza and other respiratory viruses in schools from kindergarten through 12th grade.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Testing for influenza in patients with acute lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) is common and in some cases is performed for all patients with LRTI. A more selective approach to testing could be more efficient.
Methods: We used data from two prospective studies in the US primary and urgent care settings that enrolled patients with acute LRTI or influenza-like illness.