Clinical and epidemiological value of adenovirus infection in the military personnel

Abstract

Adenovirus infections occur in different military groups as acute respitatory diseases combined with backsets and pneumonia. At definition of etiological structure of acute respiratory diseases in 1606 soldiers of 1—2 year of service, placed in the division of infectious diseases of the military medical academy in 2000—2011, dominance of an adenoviral infection (37,4%) was revealed, especially in non-epidemic periods of influenza (77% in 2007—2008). Adenoviral diseases among the hospitalized patients became complicated pneumonia in 17,8% of cases, and the proportion of adenoviral pneumonia in the overall community-acquired pneumonia with acute respiratory disease was 55,2%.