The epidemiology and clinical characteristics of respiratory syncytial virus infection in children at a public pediatric referral hospital in Mexico.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of children with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) treated at a public referral children's hospital in Mexico.

Methods: We reviewed RSV infection in patients aged 0-18 years who were treated at Hospital Infantil from January 2004 to December 2008.

Results: During the 5 years, 2797 samples were tested for respiratory viruses; 356 samples were positive for any virus, including 266 (74.

[Frequency of respiratory viruses and clinical characteristics in children attending a care center in Mexico City].

Objective: To describe the frequency of respiratory viruses and clinical characteristics in children with respiratory signs and symptoms in a tertiary care center in Mexico.

Material And Methods: Patients with a clinical diagnosis of respiratory infection and a positive immunofluorescence result (Light Diagnostics) from January 2004 to October 2006 were included.

Results: From the 986 nashopharyngeal samples, 138 (14%) were positive by immunofluorescence.

[Outbreak of respiratory syncytial virus at a neonatal intensive care unit in Mexico City].

RSV can be spread in hospital wards, being thus responsible for increased morbidity and mortality among infected patients. We describe an RSV outbreak in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). METHODS.

[Epidemiologic study of a whooping cough outbreak in Rincón Grande, Veracruz].

An outbreak of whooping cough occurred in February 1988 in the town of Rincon Grande, borough of Santa Ana Atzacan, Veracruz. The objectives of this study were: to corroborate the presence of infection by Bordetella pertussis, to survey the immunizational status against this organism in this population, to identify the etiologic agent involved and the main epidemiologic characteristics of the outbreak. A descriptive study of the cases with the known population as well as a study of the cases and controls to identify the risk factors associated with illness were performed.