Aili Cui, Baicheng Xia, Haoran Jiang, Qi Li, Liwei Sun, Jin Xu, Kongxin Hu, Zhibo Xie, Yage Wang, Runan Zhu, Chaoyang Huang, Zhong Li, Jing Xu, Wenyang Wang, Hui Zhang, Zhenguo Gao, Feng Zhang, Hui Xie, Yan Zhang
To understand the prevalence of rhinovirus (RV) among acute respiratory infection (ARI) patients, 10-year ARI surveillance in multiple provinces of China were conducted during 2012-2021. Of 15 645 ARI patients, 1180 (7.54%) were confirmed to have RV infection and 820 (69.49%) were children under 5 years of age. RV typing was performed on the 527 VP1 gene sequences, and species A, B, and C accounted for 73.24%, 4.93%, and 21.82%, respectively. Although no significant difference in the proportions of age groups or disease severity was found between RV species, RV-C was more frequently detected in children under 5 years of age, RV-A was more frequently detected in elderly individuals (≥60), and the proportions of pneumonia in RV-A and RV-C patients were higher than those in RV-B patients...
April 2024: Journal of Medical Virology