Parainfluenza Virus Types 1-3 Infections Among Children and Adults Hospitalized With Community-acquired Pneumonia.
Leigh M HowardKathryn M EdwardsYuwei ZhuDerek J WilliamsWesley H SelfSeema JainKrow AmpofoAndrew T PaviaSandra R ArnoldJonathan A McCullersEvan J AndersonRichard G WunderinkCarlos G GrijalvaPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2022)
Clinical features did not distinguish among infection with individual PIV serotypes in patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia. However, in children, PIV pneumonia was less severe than bacterial pneumonia.