id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-274900-s7ft1491 Tatarelli, P. Prevalence and clinical impact of VIral Respiratory tract infections in patients hospitalized for Community-Acquired Pneumonia: the VIRCAP study 2019-11-30 .txt text/plain 3812 199 39 title: Prevalence and clinical impact of VIral Respiratory tract infections in patients hospitalized for Community-Acquired Pneumonia: the VIRCAP study Whilst epidemiology and clinical features of viral respiratory tract infections (VRTIs) were mainly explored in children and outpatients [7, 8] , a few data show increasing prevalence rates also in hospitalized patients, particularly in elderly and in presence of comorbidities such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or immunosuppression [9] [10] [11] . CAP was defined as acute lower respiratory tract infection characterized by the presence of two or more signs and symptoms (among fever, cough, dyspnoea, pleuritic pain, crackles or bronchial breath at pulmonary auscultation), associated with at least one among (a) radiological findings (opacity or infiltrate at radiography or computed tomography interpreted as pneumonia by the attending physician), (b) serum levels of inflammatory markers above normal values and (c) neutrophilic leucocytosis, in patients hospitalized no longer than 48 h [1] . ./cache/cord-274900-s7ft1491.txt ./txt/cord-274900-s7ft1491.txt