Acute Lower Respiratory Tract Infections in Soldiers, South Korea, April 2011-March 2012

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Journal Emerg Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2014 Apr 23

PMID 24750820

Citations 17

Authors

Jung Yeon Heo

Ji Eun Lee

Hye Kang Kim

Kang-Won Choe

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Abstract

During April 2011-March 2012, we retrospectively reviewed medical records for South Korea soldiers to assess the etiology and epidemiology of acute viral lower respiratory tract infections. Adenovirus was the most commonly identified virus (63.2%) and the most common cause of pneumonia (79.3%) and hospitalization (76.6%); 3 soldiers died of adenovirus-related illness.

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