Epidemiological analysis of patients with acute respiratory infection in a hospital in Tianmen City in 2023

Abstract

Objective To investigate the epidemiological characteristics of patients with acute respiratory infection (ARI) in a hospital in Tianmen City in 2023.Methods ARI patients treated in the First People's Hospital of Tianmen from January 2023 to December 2023 were retrospectively collected as research objects. Mycoplasma pneumoniae (MP), influenza A virus (IAV), human rhinovirus (HRV), respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), respiratory adenovirus (ADV) and influenza B virus (IBV) were detected with respiratory viral nucleic acid co-detection kit, and the differences among groups were compared by χ2 test.Results A total of 8,695 ARI patients were included, of which 4,211 were pathogen-positive, the positive detection rate was 48.43%, including 4,662 positive pathogens. The positive rates of MP, IAV, HRV, RSV, ADV and IBV were 35.53%, 28.07%, 20.78%, 18.07%, 7.15% and 1.12%, respectively. The total positive rate of 6 common respiratory pathogens in early school age (

Keywords

• acute respiratory infection
• pathogens
• mycoplasma pneumoniae
• influenza a virus
• epidemiology