ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTION IN CHILDREN IN THE AGE ASPECT

Abstract

The clinical features of laboratory-confirmed acute respiratory syncytial virus infection (ARSVI) are described in 221 children of the age from 1 month to 5 years. Febrile fever has been recorded in 76% of patients with ARSVI, and significantly more often in children in the second year of life (92%), but the difference in the temerature or duration has not been found. 98% of children have had symptoms of the lower respiratory tract lesions. The most common ARSVI manifestations in the patients of the first year of life were obstructive diseases of the lower respiratory tract (obstructive bronchitis in 53% and bronchiolitis in 11% of children), in the patients of the second year of life — pneumonia (28%, p < 0,05) and catarrhal otitis (26%; p < 0,05). Bronchial obstruction syndrome in children of the first year of life was characterized by the significantly higher frequency (73%) and the maximal duration (9,7 ± 1,08 days). The largest number of cases of the severe respiratory failure has been recorded among patients of the second year of life (3 degree of respiratory failure in 22% of patients, p < 0,05).

Keywords

• respiratory syncytial virus infection
• bronchiolitis
• obstructive bronchitis
• respiratory failure