Characteristics of respiratory viral infections during influenza season in Canadian Hutterite Communities

Tae H Kim; Margaret L Russell; Kevin Fonseca; Fred Aoki; Gregory Horsman; Paul Van Caeseele; Khami Chokani; Mark Voight; Lorne Babiuk; Lorraine Moss; Richard Webby; David J D Earn; Pardeep Singh; Cassandra Howse; Mark Loeb

doi:10.1111/irv.12021

Characteristics of respiratory viral infections during influenza season in Canadian Hutterite Communities

Influenza Other Respir Viruses. 2013 Nov;7(6):1088-92. doi: 10.1111/irv.12021. Epub 2012 Oct 19.

Authors

Tae H Kim¹, Margaret L Russell, Kevin Fonseca, Fred Aoki, Gregory Horsman, Paul Van Caeseele, Khami Chokani, Mark Voight, Lorne Babiuk, Lorraine Moss, Richard Webby, David J D Earn, Pardeep Singh, Cassandra Howse, Mark Loeb

Affiliation

¹ Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.Division of Infectious Diseases, Departments of Internal Medicine, Soon Chun Hyang University Seoul Hospital, Seoul, Korea.Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.Provincial Laboratory for Public Health and Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Calgary, AB, Canada.Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.Department of Disease Control Laboratory, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.Cadham Provincial Laboratory, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.Cypress Health Region, Swift Current, SK, Canada.Saskatchewan Health, Five Hills, Moose Jaw, SK, Canada.University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.St. Judes Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Cananda.Departments of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.

Abstract

Objectives: To determined the pathogen-specific incidence of respiratory virus infection in Hutterite communities occurring over the 2008-2009 influenza season and assess temporal characteristics of respiratory illness related to infection.

Methods: 3273 participants community members enrolled in a cluster randomized trial of influenza vaccine were studied.

Results: One hundred forty-nine participants had laboratory-confirmed influenza, and 595 had at least one episode of laboratory-confirmed respiratory viral infection other than influenza. Entero/rhinovirus had the highest incidence among children<5 years.

Conclusions: A decline in the incidence of infections with age was observed for influenza as well as for most other respiratory viruses.

Keywords: Cohort study; entero/rhinovirus; respiratory viruses.

Publication types

Randomized Controlled Trial
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Age Factors
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Canada / epidemiology
Child
Child, Preschool
Ethnicity*
Female
Humans
Incidence
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Male
Middle Aged
Respiratory Tract Infections / epidemiology*
Respiratory Tract Infections / virology*
Virus Diseases / epidemiology*
Virus Diseases / virology*
Young Adult

Grants and funding

Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Canada