A Case of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection in an HIV-Positive Adult : Table 1

Table 1: Previous case reports of RSV in HIV-positive adults.


Study	CD4 count at presentation (cells/cu mm)	Diagnostic technique	RSV-specific management

Murphy and Rose [5]	170	Culture of bronchial washings	None
Sriskandan and Shaunak [6]	130	Immunofluorescence of bronchial lavage	Ribavirin
Voigt et al. [3]	8	RT-PCR^a	None
Cunha et al. [4]	43	Bronchoscopy washings cytology	None
Our study	409	Bronchial lavage ELISA^b	IVIG^c

^aRT-PCR: reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction. ^bELISA: enzyme linked immunosorbent assay. ^cIVIG: intravenous immunoglobulin.