2017
WHO Severe Acute Respiratory Infections (SARI) Definition often Underdiagnoses Serious Respiratory Viral Infections in Hospitalized Jordanian Children
Khuri-Bulos N, Piya B, Shehabi A, Faouri S, Williams J, Vermund S, Halasa N. WHO Severe Acute Respiratory Infections (SARI) Definition often Underdiagnoses Serious Respiratory Viral Infections in Hospitalized Jordanian Children. Open Forum Infectious Diseases 2017, 4: s461-s461. PMCID: PMC5631179, DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofx163.1175.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSevere acute respiratory infectionAcute respiratory infectionsViral burdenRespiratory infectionsWorld Health Organization case definitionNasal/throat swabsJordanian childrenAcute respiratory illnessRespiratory viral infectionsUnderlying medical conditionsAcute respiratory symptomsVirus-positive casesDays of presentationDiagnosis of pneumoniaGlobal Influenza SurveillanceLarge government hospitalYoung hospitalized childrenRespiratory symptomsInfection definitionsQ-RT-PCRRespiratory illnessThroat swabsHospitalized childrenCase definitionClinical data
2015
Natural history and epidemiology of respiratory syncytial virus infection in the Middle East: Hospital surveillance for children under age two in Jordan
Halasa N, Williams J, Faouri S, Shehabi A, Vermund SH, Wang L, Fonnesbeck C, Khuri-Bulos N. Natural history and epidemiology of respiratory syncytial virus infection in the Middle East: Hospital surveillance for children under age two in Jordan. Vaccine 2015, 33: 6479-6487. PMID: 26314623, PMCID: PMC7115487, DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.08.048.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsEpidemiological MonitoringFemaleHospitalsHumansInfantInfant, NewbornJordanMaleMass SpectrometryNasal MucosaPharynxPrevalenceProspective StudiesReal-Time Polymerase Chain ReactionRespiratory Syncytial Virus InfectionsRespiratory Tract InfectionsReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionRisk FactorsVitamin DConceptsRespiratory syncytial virusRSV-positive childrenVitamin D levelsD levelsRespiratory virusesRisk factorsMedical conditionsBurden of RSVOxygen useMedian vitamin D levelNasal/throat swabsRespiratory syncytial virus infectionCause of bronchiolitisHeel stick bloodSyncytial virus infectionLack of breastfeedingSupplemental oxygen useHigh viral loadFuture RSV vaccinesYoung childrenReal-time RT-PCRRSV hospitalizationRespiratory symptomsRSV vaccineAntiviral therapy