Abstract
The etiology of acute bronchiolitis was investigated by comparing the viruses and bacteria isolated from the upper respiratory tract of 58 children with bronchiolitis and 128 healthy controls. The only virus demonstrated in significant relation to this syndrome was respiratory syncytial virus which was isolated from 55 per cent of the bronchiolitis patients and from none of the controls. Pneumococci, hemolytic streptococci, and Hemophilus influenzae were found with comparable frequency in both groups. There was significantly less frequent isolation of alpha hemolytic streptococci and Staphylococcus aureus and more frequent isolation of organisms of the coli-aerogenes group from the patients with bronchiolitis as compared with the controls.
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