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Role of rhinovirus C respiratory infections in sick and healthy children in SpainCristina Calvo
Department of Pediatrics, Hospital Severo Ochoa, Leganes, Madrid, Spain
Pediatr Infect Dis J 29:717-20. 2010..Recently a new genogroup of human rhinovirus (HRV) has been described and named HRV-C. The relative importance of HRV-C in viral respiratory tract illnesses is unknown...
Variability of influenza AH1N1 infections in a neonatal unit in SpainCristina Calvo
Department of Pediatrics, Hospital Severo Ochoa, Leganes, Spain
Neonatology 100:282-4. 2011....
Role of rhinovirus C in apparently life-threatening events in infants, SpainCristina Calvo
Hospital Severo Ochoa, Leganes, Madrid, Spain
Emerg Infect Dis 15:1506-8. 2009..Nine of 11 infants with positive virus results were infected by rhinoviruses. We detected the new genogroup of rhinovirus C in 6 aspirates...
Detection of new respiratory viruses in hospitalized infants with bronchiolitis: a three-year prospective studyC Calvo
Pediatrics Department, Severo Ochoa Hospital, Madrid, Spain
Acta Paediatr 99:883-7. 2010..We have designed a study with the objective of describing the clinical impact of other viruses different from the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in hospitalized infants with bronchiolitis...
The burden of infections by parainfluenza virus in hospitalized children in SpainCristina Calvo
Department of Pediatrics, Severo Ochoa Hospital, Madrid, Spain
Pediatr Infect Dis J 30:792-4. 2011..PIV infections were a significant proportion of viral respiratory detections (11.8% of cases). PIV types 3 and 4 were most commonly detected. There were clinical differences between PIV and respiratory syncytial virus infections...
[Consensus Document on the differential diagnosis and therapeutic approach to recurrent fever by the Paediatric Infectology Society and the Paediatric Rheumatology Society]C Calvo Rey
Sociedad Española de Infectología Pediátrica, and Sociedad Española de Reumatología Pediátrica, Spain
An Pediatr (Barc) 74:194.e1-16. 2011..We include the diagnostic criteria for some processes as well as the characteristics that should, eventually, lead to a genetic study. Although treatment should be individualised, we also include some general recommendations...
Multiple simultaneous viral infections in infants with acute respiratory tract infections in SpainCristina Calvo
Pediatrics Department, Severo Ochoa Hospital, Madrid, Spain
J Clin Virol 42:268-72. 2008..The clinical significance of the presence of more than one type of virus in the respiratory specimens of children with respiratory infections is not clear...
Clinical characteristics of human bocavirus infections compared with other respiratory viruses in Spanish childrenCristina Calvo
Pediatrics Department, Severo Ochoa Hospital, National Center of Microbiology, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
Pediatr Infect Dis J 27:677-80. 2008..Human bocavirus (HBoV) can be found in a substantial proportion of children with respiratory tract diseases. The relative importance of HBoV in viral respiratory tract illnesses is not yet well known...
Role of rhinovirus in hospitalized infants with respiratory tract infections in SpainCristina Calvo
Pediatrics Department, Severo Ochoa Hospital, Virology Service ISCIII National Microbiology Center, Madrid, Spain
Pediatr Infect Dis J 26:904-8. 2007..Our aim was to describe rhinovirus infections in hospitalized children, under 2 years of age, and to compare these with patients infected with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)...
Ten years of global evolution of the human respiratory syncytial virus BA genotype with a 60-nucleotide duplication in the G protein geneAlfonsina Trento
Unidad de Biología Viral, Centro Nacional de Microbiologia, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain
J Virol 84:7500-12. 2010..After that date and coinciding with a bottleneck effect on the population size, a relatively new BA lineage (BA-IV) replaced all other group B viruses, suggesting further adaptation of the BA genotype to its natural host...
Human bocavirus detection in nasopharyngeal aspirates of children without clinical symptoms of respiratory infectionMaria Luz García-García
Pediatrics Department, Severo Ochoa Hospital, Madrid, Spain
Pediatr Infect Dis J 27:358-60. 2008..HBoV was detected in 5% of 116 healthy children versus 17% of 908 hospitalized children. HBoV can be detected in healthy children but with a significantly lower frequency than in ill children...
Pandemic H1N1 influenza-associated hospitalizations in children in Madrid, SpainTeresa del Rosal
Pediatrics Department, Hospital Infanta Elena, Valdemoro, Madrid, Spain
Influenza Other Respi Viruses 5:e544-51. 2011..To describe the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of children hospitalized with 2009 pandemic influenza (pH1N1) in Madrid, Spain...
Laboratory-based, 2-year surveillance of pediatric parapneumonic pneumococcal empyema following heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine universal vaccination in MadridJuan Picazo
Microbiology Department, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain
Pediatr Infect Dis J 30:471-4. 2011..In October 2006, the heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine was included in the Madrid vaccination calendar, warranting serotype (St) surveillances in pneumococcal pediatric parapneumonic empyema (PPE)...
