Clinical Features of RSV-Infected Children with Bacterial Codetection, 2023-2025

1,601 children hospitalized with RSV infection at a single hospital in Henan Province, China, between January 2023 and March 2025. This retrospective study by Jingwen Ni compares clinical characteristics and laboratory results between groups with and without bacterial codetection. Children codetected with Streptococcus pneumoniae or Haemophilus influenzae showed elevated inflammatory markers like IL-6 and required more intensive care.

Use Cases

• Identify risk factors for bacterial codetection based on clinical features like history of wheezing and fever.
• Predict the need for PICU admission based on laboratory markers such as WBC, CRP, and IL-6 levels.
• Analyze associations between specific bacterial codetections and clinical outcomes like length of hospital stay.
• Build models to forecast respiratory support requirements using demographic and laboratory data.

Strengths

• Data covers 1,601 pediatric patient records from a defined hospital cohort.
• Study compares three distinct patient groups: non-bacterial, S. pneumoniae, and H. influenzae codetection.
• Analysis includes multiple clinical and laboratory variables, such as WBC, NLR, CRP, PCT, and IL-6.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is from a single-center study, which may limit generalizability.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Jingwen Ni via figshare.

Collection Method

Single-center retrospective study.

Time Range

January 2023 to March 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-04 05:32:46; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Luoyang Maternal and Child Health Hospital, Henan Province, China.