The epidemiology and estimated etiology of pathogens detected from the upper respiratory tract of adults with severe acute respiratory infections in multiple countries, 2014-2015.

<h4>Introduction</h4>Etiology studies of severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) in adults are limited. We studied potential etiologies of SARI among adults in six countries using multi-pathogen diagnostics.<h4>Methods</h4>We enrolled both adults with SARI (acute respirato...

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Main Authors: Jennifer Milucky, Tracy Pondo, Christopher J Gregory, Danielle Iuliano, Sandra S Chaves, John McCracken, Adel Mansour, Yuzhi Zhang, Mohammad Abdul Aleem, Bernard Wolff, Brett Whitaker, Toni Whistler, Clayton Onyango, Maria Renee Lopez, Na Liu, Mohammed Ziaur Rahman, Nong Shang, Jonas Winchell, Malinee Chittaganpitch, Barry Fields, Herberth Maldonado, Zhiping Xie, Stephen Lindstrom, Katherine Sturm-Ramirez, Joel Montgomery, Kai-Hui Wu, Chris A Van Beneden, Adult TAC Working Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240309