Role of Rhinovirus C in Apparently Life-Threatening Events in Infants, Spain

Abstract

To assess whether infants hospitalized after an apparently life-threatening event had an associated respiratory virus infection, we analyzed nasopharyngeal aspirates from 16 patients. Nine of 11 infants with positive virus results were infected by rhinoviruses. We detected the new genogroup of rhinovirus C in 6 aspirates.

Keywords

• Picornavirus
• rhinovirus
• HRV-C
• infants
• apparent life-threatening events
• viruses