National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Childhood pneumonia is a common illness worldwide. Several bacteria and viruses can cause pneumonic illness among children. Respiratory viral infections are associated with childhood pneumonia up to 60% of the cases with high mortality rate. Human rhinoviruses (HRVs) associated pneumonia more likely to be occur in young children and older adults. The purpose of this study is to understand the prevalence of HRV in pneumonia suspected children of Uttar Pradesh region, using RT-PCR based molecular detection method. In this study 17.74 % children are found HRV positive. Children of 0 to 5 year age group are found more susceptible to infection with high HRV prevalence (68%). Clinical features of HRV confirmed pneumonic patients have been studied, among them 77% of patients were suffering from cough, followed by rhinitis (68.2%), sputum (63.6%), fever (59%), chest pain (54.5%) and shortness of breath (41%). Children showed clinical symptom of shortness of breath were below 5 years of age.
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