Adenovirus Type 7 Pneumonia in Children Who Died from Measles-Associated Pneumonia, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2014
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Hoang Ngoc Thach; Le Thanh Hai; Tadaki Suzuki; Hideki Hasegawa; Ta Anh Tuan; Yuko Sato; Toshio Kumasaka; Noriko Nakajima; Harutaka Katano; Shoji Kawachi; Tsuguto Fujimoto; Dao Huu Nam; Tran Minh Dien; Nozomu Hanaoka
- Source
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 22, Iss 4, Pp 687-690 (2016)
- Subject
- 0301 basic medicine
Microbiology (medical)
Male
Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty
Epidemiology
Secondary infection
Adenoviridae Infections
Pneumonia, Viral
lcsh:Medicine
Measles
lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases
Disease Outbreaks
Measles virus
03 medical and health sciences
adenovirus infection
0302 clinical medicine
children
secondary infection
Medicine
measles
pneumonia
Humans
lcsh:RC109-216
viruses
030212 general & internal medicine
Adenovirus infection
Cause of death
biology
business.industry
Coinfection
Adenoviruses, Human
lcsh:R
Dispatch
Infant
medicine.disease
biology.organism_classification
Survival Analysis
Pneumonia
030104 developmental biology
Infectious Diseases
Vietnam
Child, Preschool
Female
business
Adenovirus Type 7 Pneumonia in Children Who Died from Measles-Associated Pneumonia, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2014
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1080-6059
1080-6040
During a 2014 measles outbreak in Vietnam, postmortem pathologic examination of hospitalized children who died showed that adenovirus type 7 pneumonia was a contributory cause of death in children with measles-associated immune suppression. Adenovirus type 7 pneumonia should be recognized as a major cause of secondary infection after measles.