Prevalence of respiratory virus infections using multiplex real-time PCR in Korean nationwide reference laboratory (2015 annual report)

Abstract

Purpose: Respiratory virus (RV, Influenza, RSV, parainfluenza, adenovirus, etc) cause a significant community health concern. Treating cold like symptom and managing severe lower respiratory infection are common in children and old age. Active monitoring of prevalence of specific respiratory virus is carefully follow up and monitored by hospital based laboratories and nationwide reference laboratories. We use sensitive and validated real-time PCR assay for reporting clinically important respiratory virus prevalence rate during 2015.