Lower Respiratory Tract Virus Findings in Mechanically Ventilated Patients With Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia



: Karhu J, Ala-Kokko TI, Vuorinen T, Ohtonen P, Syrjälä H

Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC

: 2014

: Clinical Infectious Diseases

: CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

: CLIN INFECT DIS

: 59

: 1

: 62

: 70

: 9

: 1058-4838

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciu237(external)


Conclusions. Viral findings were demonstrated in almost half of the SCAP patients. Clinical characteristics were similar between the pure bacterial and mixed bacterial-viral infections groups. The frequency of viral detection depends on the availability of PCR techniques and lower respiratory specimens.




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