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Michael H. Zaroukian, MD, PhD
Isabel Leader
Lansing, Mich

Arch Intern Med. 1991;151(12):2477-2484.

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To the Editor. —

We took great interest in the article by Takimoto and colleagues¹ entitled "Respiratory Syncytial Virus [RSV] Infections on an Adult Medical Ward" that appeared in the April issue of the ARCHIVES. We also previously reported an index case of life-threatening RSV pneumonia in the absence of other identifiable pathogens,² along with six other cases identified by reviewing the serologic records of the Michigan Department of Public Health, Lansing. We followed this report with a prospective study showing RSV to be the etiologic agent in 3 of 55 (5.5%) consecutive patients admitted to the hospital with community-acquired Pneumonia.³

A number of important points emerge in reviewing the findings of Takimoto and colleagues together with our results and those of other investigators.^4-12 These data further reinforce the likelihood that RSV is an underrecognized lower respiratory pathogen capable of causing severe community-acquired or nosocomial pneumonia . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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