Prevalence of viral pathogens in a sample of hospitalized Egyptian children with acute lower respiratory tract infections: a two-year prospective study.
Amira S El RefayManal A ShehataLobna S SherifHala G El NadyNaglaa KholoussiShams KholoussiNevine R El BaroudyMokhtar R GommaSara H MahmoudNoura M Abo ShamaOla BagatoAhmed El TaweelAhmed KandeilMohamed A AliPublished in: Bulletin of the National Research Centre (2022)
Viral infection is prevalent in the childhood period; however, the real magnitude of viral pneumonia in children is underestimated. The reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction has to be a vital tool for epidemiological research and is able to clear the gaps in-between clinical pictures and final diagnoses.