Publications by authors named "Pejito M"
Introduction: Reporting of respiratory infections reduced during the COVID-19 pandemic. The objective was to estimate the prevalence of respiratory syncytial virus(RSV) and influenza in schoolchildren seen at a children's hospital during the return to school.
Methods: Cross-sectional study of patients aged 3-18 years suspected of COVID-19 with a negative test for SARS-CoV-2 between August and October 2021.
Background: Initially, the impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection on children was unknown. Standard COVID-19 diagnosis is confirmed using real-time qPCR. Cycle threshold (Ct) values of RT-qPCR are inversely proportional to viral load and the test indirectly quantifies viral RNA copy numbers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Respiratory viruses are the main cause of acute lower respiratory tract infection (ALRTI) in the pediatric population. In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared that the new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) had reached the pandemic status. Our objective was to describe the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on hospitalizations due to ALRTI at Hospital de Niños Ricardo Gutiérrez (HNRG) and virus circulation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Varicella is the primary infection caused by varicella-zoster virus (VZV). In Argentina, the varicella vaccine was introduced in the National Immunization Programme in 2015 as a single dose scheduled at 15 months of age.
Objectives: To estimate VZV seroprevalence in a healthy hospital based population before and after vaccine introduction to the NIP
Material Y Methods: Cross-sectional, observational, analytic study.