Incidence of Picornaviruses among Children with Respiratory Tract Infections Attending Ain Shams Pediatric University Hospital, Egypt

Background: Respiratory infections represent a major public health problem. Human rhinoviruses (HRVs) and enteroviruses (HEVs) are prominent causes of respiratory diseases. Reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) is a highly sensitive technique for the detection of nucleic acid sequences from RNA viruses in clinical specimens. This work was designed to measure the incidence of picornaviruses (HRVs and HEVs) in children with acute respiratory tract infections (ARTI) attending or admitted to Ain Shams Pediatrics University Hospital between January 2015 and March 2016.