ArticleJournal of preventive medicine and public health = Yebang Uihakhoe chi2015
Respiratory Syncytial Virus Outbreak in the Basic Military Training Camp of the Republic of Korea Air Force
Article in Journal of preventive medicine and public health = Yebang Uihakhoe chi, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Vaccinations for Elite Athletes.Vaccines · 2025Article
- Epidemiology and Disease Burden of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection in Adults.Infection & chemotherapy · 2024Review
- COVID-19 Outbreak in a Military Unit in Korea.Epidemiology and health · 2021Article
- The molecular epidemiology of respiratory viruses in military trainees in Iran.Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran · 2019Article
- Case study-based time-course analysis of symptoms of respiratory syncytial virus infections followed by acute sinusitis in otherwise-healthy adults.Journal of thoracic disease · 2018Article
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Abstract
objectivesAn outbreak of acute febrile illness occurred in the Republic of Korea Air Force boot camp from May to July 2011. An epidemiological investigation of the causative agent, which was of a highly infective nature, was conducted.
methodsThroat swabs were carried out and a multiplex reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay was performed to identify possible causative factors.
resultsThe mean age of patients who had febrile illness during the study period was 20.24 years. The multiplex RT-PCR assay identified respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) as the causative agent. The main symptoms were sore throat (76.0%), sputum (72.8%), cough (72.1%), tonsillar hypertrophy (67.9%), and rhinorrhea (55.9%). The mean temperature was 38.75°C and the attack rate among the recruits was 15.7% (588 out of 3750 recruits), while the mean duration of fever was 2.3 days. The prognosis was generally favorable with supportive care but recurrent fever occurred in 10.1% of the patients within a month.
conclusionsThis is the first epidemiological study of an RSV outbreak that developed in a healthy young adult group. In the event of an outbreak of an acute febrile illness of a highly infective nature in facilities used by a young adult group, RSV should be considered among the possible causative agents.
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