Children Hospitalized with Rhinovirus Bronchiolitis Have Asthma-Like Characteristics. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Children with bronchiolitis often are considered a homogeneous group. However, in a multicenter, prospective study of 2207 young children hospitalized for bronchiolitis, we found that children with respiratory syncytial virus detected differ from those with rhinovirus detected; the latter patients resemble older children with asthma, including more frequent treatment with corticosteroids.

publication date

  • February 11, 2016

Research

keywords

  • Asthma
  • Bronchiolitis, Viral
  • Picornaviridae Infections
  • Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC4846467

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 84971457547

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/j.jpeds.2016.01.041

PubMed ID

  • 26875009

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 172