id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-331973-avjw4kx1 Das, Shubhagata Laboratory Diagnosis of Respiratory Tract Infections in Children – the State of the Art 2018-10-18 .txt text/plain 5141 228 34 Serological tests can successfully identify antibodies to most respiratory pathogens such as RSV, adenovirus, influenza A and B, parainfluenza 1-3 virus, etc., and can detect mixed infections from hospitalized children suffering from acute respiratory infections, with the exception of infants for whom an antibody response is usually undetected (Hall et al., 1991; Chkhaidze et al., 2006) . FA testing, in addition to RT-PCR, is useful for epidemiological studies as it increases the probability of identifying acute viral infections and has been used for accurate assessment of respiratory viruses other than influenza in children (Sawatwong et al., 2012; Feikin et al., 2013; Zhang et al., 2017) . Most of the studies evaluating the clinical performance of these assays have reported high sensitivity (87-100%) and specificity (>98%) for detecting influenza A/B and RSV in pediatric and adult patients (Bell et al., 2014; Nie et al., 2014; Popowitch and Miller, 2015; Gibson et al., 2017; Ling et al., 2018) . ./cache/cord-331973-avjw4kx1.txt ./txt/cord-331973-avjw4kx1.txt