ArticleThe Journal of infection2014
Rates of respiratory virus-associated hospitalization in children aged <5 years in rural northern India.
Article in The Journal of infection, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
26 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 38 citations in OpenAlex.
- Disease burden due to respiratory syncytial virus infection among under-5 children of India for 2020: a multiplicative model using meta-estimates.BMJ global health · 2025Pooled it
- Systematic literature review of the signs and symptoms of respiratory syncytial virus.Influenza and other respiratory viruses · 2023Pooled it
- Can we distinguish respiratory viral infections based on clinical features? A prospective pediatric cohort compared to systematic literature review.Reviews in medical virology · 2018Pooled it
- Incidence of laboratory-confirmed influenza disease among infants under 6 months of age: a systematic review.BMJ open · 2017Pooled it
- Respiratory syncytial virus hospitalization and mortality: Systematic review and meta-analysis.Pediatric pulmonology · 2017Pooled it
- Efficacy of inactivated trivalent influenza vaccine in rural India: a 3-year cluster-randomised controlled trial.The Lancet. Global health · 2019Trial
- The prevalence and role of human respiratory syncytial virus in pediatric respiratory tract infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis of global data.EClinicalMedicine · 2026Article
- Population-level respiratory virus-virus interactions, Puerto Rico, 2013-2023.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2025Article
- Respiratory viruses associated with severe acute respiratory infection in children aged <5 years at a tertiary care hospital in Delhi, India during 2013-15.Journal of global health · 2024Article
- Sentinel Enhanced Dengue Surveillance System - Puerto Rico, 2012-2022.Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Surveillance summaries (Washington, D.C. : 2002) · 2024Article
- Respiratory syncytial virus among children hospitalized with severe acute respiratory infection in Kashmir, a temperate region in northern India.Journal of global health · 2022Observational
- Respiratory syncytial virus-associated hospitalisation in children aged ≤5 years: a scoping review of literature from 2009 to 2021.ERJ open research · 2022Article
- The Burden of Respiratory Viruses and Their Prevalence in Different Geographical Regions of India: 1970-2020.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Review
- Coronavirus threat to Indian population: risk factors, transmission dynamics and preparedness to prevent the spread of the virus.Virusdisease · 2020Review
- The Rise and Impact of COVID-19 in India.Frontiers in medicine · 2020Article
- Age-specific incidence rates and risk factors for respiratory syncytial virus-associated lower respiratory tract illness in cohort children under 5 years old in the Philippines.Influenza and other respiratory viruses · 2019Article
- Epidemiology of viral acute lower respiratory infections in a community-based cohort of rural north Indian children.Journal of global health · 2019Article
- Healthcare utilisation patterns for respiratory and gastrointestinal syndromes and meningitis in Msunduzi municipality, Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa, 2013.South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde · 2019Article
- Human Coronavirus in Hospitalized Children With Respiratory Tract Infections: A 9-Year Population-Based Study From Norway.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2019Article
- Assessment and Validation of Syndromic Case Definitions for Respiratory Syncytial Virus Testing in a Low Resource Population.The Pediatric infectious disease journal · 2019Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
10 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
Abstract
objectivesThough respiratory viruses are thought to cause substantial morbidity globally in children aged <5 years, the incidence of severe respiratory virus infections in children is unknown in India where 20% of the world's children live.
methodsDuring August 2009-July 2011, prospective population-based surveillance was conducted for hospitalizations of children aged <5 years in a rural community in Haryana State. Clinical data and respiratory specimens were collected. Swabs were tested by RT-PCR for influenza and parainfluenza viruses, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), human metapneumovirus, coronaviruses, and adenovirus. Average annual hospitalization incidence was calculated using census data and adjusted for hospitalizations reported to occur at non-study hospitals according to a community healthcare utilization survey.
resultsOf 245 hospitalized children, respiratory viruses were detected among 98 (40%), of whom 92 (94%) had fever or respiratory symptoms. RSV accounted for the highest virus-associated hospitalization incidence (34.6/10,000, 95% CI 26.3-44.7) and 20% of hospitalizations. There were 11.8/10,000 (95% CI 7.9-18.4) influenza-associated hospitalizations (7% of hospitalizations). RSV and influenza virus detection peaked in winter (November-February) and rainy seasons (July), respectively.
conclusionRespiratory viruses were associated with a substantial proportion of hospitalizations among young children in a rural Indian community. Public health research and prevention in India should consider targeting RSV and influenza in young children.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.