| respiratory viruses in the pediatric intensive care unit: prevalence and clinical aspects. | a survey was conducted in two pediatric intensive care units in hospitals in porto alegre, brazil, in order to monitor the main respiratory viruses present in bronchiolitis and/or pneumonia and their involvement in the severity of viral respiratory infections. viral respiratory infection prevalence was 38.7%. in bronchiolitis, respiratory syncytial virus (rsv) was detected in 36% of the cases. in pneumonia, the prevalence rates were similar for adenovirus (10.3%) and rsv (7.7%). there was a diff ... | 2004 | 15761607 |