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A two-month-old infant is admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit with severe pneumonia. The baby was delivered at 34 weeks gestation, but no other significant medical history is known. Sampling of the respiratory epithelium and subsequent culture reveal multinucleated giant cells. Aerosolized ribavirin therapy is initiated. Which is the following is correct about this infection?

A. Antibodies to hemagglutinin neutralize this virus.

B. Hospital outbreaks are impossible to contain.

C. IgM antibody is protective.

D. Outbreaks occur every five to seven years.

E. The virus may be isolated from the blood.

F. The virus presents as the ‘common cold’ in adults



  #2

i think F - resp syncytial virus.

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I agree with docsrinu...looks more like bronchiolitis due to RSV. Check this link:

http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic365.htm

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wats the correct ans disha. bcos i know rsv causes commoncold but in adults? not sure.







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