Detection of Respiratory Viruses in Deceased Persons, Spain, 2017
Ana Navascués, Itziar Casado, Alejandra Pérez-García, Aitziber Aguinaga, Iván Martínez-Baz, Yugo Floristán, Carmen Ezpeleta, and Jesús Castilla
Author affiliations: Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, IdiSNA, Pamplona, Spain (A. Navascués, A. Pérez-García, A. Aguinaga, C. Ezpeleta); CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Madrid, Spain (I. Casado, A. Pérez-García, I. Martínez-Baz, Y. Floristán, J. Castilla); Instituto de Salud Pública de Navarra, IdiSNA, Pamplona (I. Casado, I. Martínez-Baz, Y. Floristán, J. Castilla)
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Figure 1. Clinical and postmortem detections of respiratory viruses among 57 deceased persons >65 years of age, Spain, 2017. As indicated, 47% of deceased patients tested positive for respiratory virus infection postmortem, but only 7% had received the same diagnosis before death. RSV, respiratory syncytial virus.
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