id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-321756-a7eh4dkb Kwofie, Theophilus B Respiratory viruses in children hospitalized for acute lower respiratory tract infection in Ghana 2012-04-10 .txt text/plain 3675 204 48 The study was done to identify viruses associated with acute lower respiratory tract infection among children less than 5 years. Majority of acute lower respiratory tract infections (ALRTI) in developed countries have been reported to be often due to viral pathogens of which most common are RSV, PIV, influenza viruses, Adv, human Coronaviruses and Bocaviruses [5] [6] [7] . This study was done to determine the burden of respiratory viruses among children hospitalized at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital for acute lower respiratory illness using the Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR). The overall prevalence is comparable to previous studies done in other developing countries [24] and the predominance of RSV is in accordance with the assertion that this virus is the single most frequent lower respiratory tract pathogen in infants and young children worldwide [25] [26] [27] . ./cache/cord-321756-a7eh4dkb.txt ./txt/cord-321756-a7eh4dkb.txt