Acute respiratory infections in children from a deprived urban population from Uruguay

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo

Maria Hortal¹  Myriam Contera¹  Cristina Mogdasy¹  José Carlos Russi¹ 

[1] ,Ministry of Public Health Maternal-Child Program Central Public Health LaboratoryMontevideo,Uruguay

关键词: Respiratory tract infections;    Respiratory syncytial viruses;    S. pneumoniae;    Haemophilus infections;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0036-46651994000100009

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

To obtain base line data on incidence, duration, clinical characteristics and etiology of acute respiratory infections (ARI), 276 children from deprived families living in Montevideo were followed during 32 months. The target population was divided into two groups for the analysis of the results: children aged less than 12 months and those older than this age. During the follow-up period 1.056 ARI episodes were recorded. ARI incidence was 5.2 per child/year. It was 87% higher in infants than in the older group, as was the duration of the episodes. Most of the diseases were mild. Tachypnea and retractions were seldom observed, but 12 children were refered to the hospital, and 2 infants died. Viral etiology was identified in 15.3% of the episodes. RSV was the predominant agent producing annual outbreaks. Moderate to heavy colonization of the upper respiratory tract by Streptococcus pneumoniae (32.3%) and Hemophilus sp. (18.9%) was recorded during ARI episodes. This community-based study furnish original data on ARI in Uruguay. It enabled to asses the impact of these infections on childhood.

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