Original Articles · pages 69–75
Hospital Based Prevalence of Respiratory Viral Infections in Clinically Suspected Cases of SARI with or without SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A Study from a Tertiary Care Hospital of North India
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Megh Singh Dhakad, Sanjib Gogoi, Tanmay Talukdar, Anjali Bhatia, Ansu Kumari, Pratibha Mittal, et al. Hospital Based Prevalence of Respiratory Viral Infections in Clinically Suspected Cases of SARI with or without SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A Study from a Tertiary Care Hospital of North India. J Int Med Sci Acad. 2023;36(1):69–75.
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Background: In this COVID-19 era, it is worth to know the circulation of other respiratory viruses (ORVs), in SARI (severe acquired respiratory infections) patients with or without SARS-CoV-2 for clinic-epidemiological perspective. Therefore, present study was conducted to estimate the prevalence of respiratory viruses among the clinically suspected cases of SARI with or without SARS-CoV-2 infection in a tertiary care hospital setup. Methods: A total of 175 adult patients fulfilling the inclusion criteria were included. Nasopharyngeal/Oropharyngeal swabs were collected in VTM tubes and processed for viral nucleic acids extraction and multiplex-real-time-RT-qPCR as per standard protocols.