Respiratary Syncytial Virus A causeof ACUTE BRONCHIOLITIS In Egyptian Infats

Abstract

This study shows the incidence of RSV in 30 infants less than 2 years of age, presenting with a clinical picture suggestive of acute bronchiolitis to the emergency room of Cairo university children hospital during November 200 I together with IO age and sex matched controls. All the infants were subjected to full clinical assessment including measurement of 02 saturation by pulse oximeter, routine laboratory and radiological assessment, and detection of the virus in nasopharyngeal secretions of such infants using a rapid test, Abbott TESTPACK RSV. RSV was found in 83.3% of the cases, while I 00% of the control group were negative for the virus. 86.6% of the cases were less than one year of age, and 70% of them were males.