Volume 20, Number 5—May 2014
Dispatch
Acute Lower Respiratory Tract Infections in Soldiers, South Korea, April 2011–March 2012
Table 1
Causes of and diagnoses for acute lower respiratory tract infections in soldiers, South Korea, April 2011–March 2012
| Virus identified✻ | Clinical diagnosis, no. (%) patients |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pneumonia, n = 58 | Tracheobronchitis, n = 25 | Bronchiolitis, n = 4 | Total, N = 87 | |
| Adenovirus† | 46 (79.3) | 9 (36.0) | 0 | 55 (63.2) |
| Influenza A | 10 (17.2) | 14 (56.0) | 2 (50.0) | 26 (29.9) |
| Influenza B | 2 (3.5) | 2 (8.0) | 0 | 4 (4.6) |
| Rhinovirus group A† | 2 (3.5) | 1 (4.0) | 0 | 3 (3.4) |
| Parainfluenza | 0 | 0 | 2 (50.0) | 2 (2.3) |
*A total of 207 nasopharyngeal swab specimens were collected from soldiers with acute lower respiratory infections. Within 3 days of collection, the specimens were tested against 12 respiratory viruses at GClabs (Yongin-si, South Korea) by using Seeplex RV12 ACE Detection (Seegene, Seoul, South Korea).
†Three patients were co-infected with rhinovirus group A infection and adenovirus.
1These authors contributed equally to this article.
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