Jiang Fan

TL;DR: More than 60% of episodes of symptomatic URI among young children were complicated by AOM and/or OME, and the strategy to prevent OM should involve prevention of viral URI.

TL;DR: All eight "false-positive" Hexaplex results (in comparison with negative viral culture results) were for symptomatic patients with low numbers of virus RNA copies, suggesting that HexapLex may be more sensitive than virus culture.

TL;DR: The Hexaplex assay was evaluated in comparison with conventional viral cell cultures and rapid enzyme immunoassays (EIAs) for RSV and influenza A virus for the detection of respiratory viruses from pediatric respiratory specimens obtained from children seen at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin from December 1997 through May 1998.

TL;DR: The results indicate that H1N1pdm has already diversified into distinct viral lineages with defined spatial patterns, and is central to understanding the evolution and spatial spread of the current pandemic and to predict its future impact on human populations.

TL;DR: The data suggest that asymptomatic carriage makes the use of molecular assays problematic for the detection of S. pneumoniae or S. aureus in upper respiratory tract secretions; however, the specimens tested showed virtually no carriage of the other nine viral and bacterial pathogens, and the Detection of these pathogens should not be a significant diagnostic problem.