Clinical implications of aminotransferase elevation in hospitalised infants aged 8‐90 days with respiratory virus detection

• Published in: Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses Vol. 14; no. 4; pp. 429 - 435
• Main Authors: Kim, Sang Gyeom, Oh, Yu Na, Lee, Joon Kee
• Format: Journal Article Web Resource
• Language: English
• Published: England John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.07.2020; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: Age; Alanine; Alanine transaminase; aminotransferase; Aspartate aminotransferase; Bacterial infections; Blood; Caregivers; Confidence intervals; Coronaviruses; Demographics; Demography; DNA polymerases; Fever; Health aspects; Hemoglobin; Hepatitis; Hospitals; Hyperthermia; Infants; Infection; Influenza; Laboratories; Liver diseases; Meningitis; Neutrophils; Original; Parainfluenza; Polymerase chain reaction; Respiratory diseases; Respiratory syncytial virus; respiratory tract infections; RNA-directed DNA polymerase; Signs and symptoms; Urinary tract diseases; Urinary tract infections; Urogenital system; Viruses; hepatitis; respiratory tract infections; aminotransferase

Background Fever and respiratory symptoms are the major causes of hospitalisation in infants aged 90 days or less. Respiratory viruses (RVs) are detected by multiplex reverse transcriptase‐polymerase chain reaction (mRT‐PCR) in up to 70% of infants tested in this population. Aminotransferase elevati...