PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Tayyba Amin
AU  - Shahid Iqbal
AU  - Imran Saleem
TI  - seasonality of bronchiolitis in hospitalized children Multan, Pakistan
AID  - 10.1183/13993003.congress-2015.PA1335
DP  - 2015 Sep 01
TA  - European Respiratory Journal
PG  - PA1335
VI  - 46
IP  - suppl 59
4099  - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/46/suppl_59/PA1335.short
4100  - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/46/suppl_59/PA1335.full
SO  - Eur Respir J2015 Sep 01; 46
AB  - Background: Bronchiolitis is a highly infectious viral illness and measures to prevent infection and recurrence of infection are important. No such study is conducted in Pakistan to document seasonal variation of bronchiolitis in this targeted population.Aims and objectives: To describe the seasonality of the bronchiolitis so that we can equip our hospital before the epidemic of this illness.Methods: Epidemiological analysis of patients who were admitted to our hospital with bronchiolitis over a period of 1 year (2014) was done using SPSS version 20.Results: Data was collected from 3439 patients of which 136 patients were diagnosed as bronchiolitis. Of 136 patients 76 (55.9%) were males and 60 (44.1%) were females. Mean age of our study cases was 7.00 ± 5.57 Months (Minimum age was 1 month while maximum age was 24 months). Study results revealed that majority of our study cases i.e. 89 (65.4%) belonged to age group of 1 – 6 months, 31 (22.8%) belonged to age group 6 – 12 months and 16 (11.8%) belonged to age group of 12 – 24 months. in October 8(5.9 %) and November 9(6.6 %); the highest peak was observed in December 40 (29.4%), January 34 (25%) and February 18 (13.2%), in March 12 (8.8%), In April 5 (3.7%), in May 2 (1.5%), in June, July, August each month 1 (0.7%) and in September 5 (3.7%).Conclusion: Bronchiolitis onset started in October and November. The most incidence months are December, January and February with minimal cases in June, July and August.