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Detection of Common Respiratory Viruses and Mycoplasma pneumoniae in Patient-Occupied Rooms in Pediatric Wards.
Medicine (Baltimore)
April 2016
From the Department of Respiratory Therapy, College of Medicine (G-HW), College of Medicine (T-YL, Y-CH), and Department of Biotechnology and Laboratory Science, Research Center for Emerging Viral Infections (C-GH, K-CT), Chang Gung University; Department of Neurosurgery (G-HW), Laboratory Medicine (C-GH, K-CT) and Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases (T-YL, Y-CH), Chang Gung Memorial Hospital; Department of Nursing, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology (F-FC), Tao-Yuan, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Few studies have assessed viral contamination in the rooms of hospital wards. This cross-sectional study evaluated the air and objects in patient-occupied rooms in pediatric wards for the presence of common respiratory viruses and Mycoplasma pneumoniae.Air samplers were placed at a short (60-80 cm) and long (320 cm) distance from the head of the beds of 58 pediatric patients, who were subsequently confirmed to be infected with enterovirus (n = 17), respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) (n = 13), influenza A virus (n = 13), adenovirus (n = 9), or M pneumoniae (n = 6).
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