Prolonged Virus Shedding, Detection Common In Healthy Children With Respiratory Viral Infections, Study Finds

Infectious Disease Advisor (4/16, Kuhns) reports, “Prolonged viral shedding and detection was found to be common among a cohort of healthy children with respiratory viral infections, particularly in those infected with bocavirus or rhinovirus/enterovirus, according to study results published in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society.” According to the study, “factors associated with prolonged detection included first lifetime infection with each specific virus and codetection of another respiratory virus.”