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cord-023728-fgcldn4e	Bower, John	Croup in Children (Acute Laryngotracheobronchitis)	2014-10-31		.txt	text/plain	3887	232	53	The term croup now generally refers to an acute respiratory tract illness characterized by a distinctive barking cough, hoarseness, and inspiratory stridor in a young child, usually between 6 months and 3 years old. From 1979 to 1997, croup cases associated with parainfluenza viruses, estimated from the National Hospital Discharge Survey, showed that the number of admissions among children younger than 5 years decreased by approximately one third. 14 The human coronaviruses (hCoV) have been identified in up to 7% of young children with acute respiratory tract infections, with the NL63 strain most often associated with croup. Although abrupt onset of stridor at night may be the initial indication of illness, most children have a prodrome of mild upper respiratory tract signs of rhinorrhea, cough, and sometimes fever 12 to 48 hours before the onset of the distinctive "rough and stridulous" cough of croup.	./cache/cord-023728-fgcldn4e.txt	./txt/cord-023728-fgcldn4e.txt