Diagnostic monitoring and RSV infection epidemiology in Slovakia
Authors:
J. Orosová
Authors‘ workplace:
Klinika detskej pneumológie LF SZU a Univerzitná nemocnica Bratislava, pracovisko Podunajské Biskupice
prednosta kliniky doc. MUDr. M. Brezina, CSc.
Published in:
Čes-slov Pediat 2014; 69 (3): 131-136.
Category:
Original Papers
Práca bola prednesená na odbornom podujatí: XXV. Slovensko-poľské Vojtekove-Rudnikove dni detskej pneumoftizeológie a imunoalergológie. Dolný Smokovec, 4. 10.–6 .10. 2012.
Overview
This article presents results of national research conducted during year 2011 in Slovakia and was focused on respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) as a major cause of serious respiratory infections especially in children of the youngest age groups. The aim of the research was to review the interest in RSV testing at in-patient pediatric departments across Slovakia, methodology of RSV testing and the reasons and causes why RSV testing is not performed at particular hospital units. There was no intention to describe incidence of RSV in Slovakia.
Lack of local institution which would cover RSV monitoring as it is established in majority European countries is impulse for documentation of RSV in Slovakia. Local RSV seasonality and it’s intensity as outlined on basis of this results helps determinate local indication criteria for RSV immunoprophylaxis, realized in Slovakia since 2002. Local RSV incidence data are included in this article as well.
Key words:
respiratory syncytial virus, national search in Slovakia, questionnaire, incidence, treatment
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