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To better understand these viral codetections and potential interferences, we tested for the presence of viruses and developed quantitative PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) for the viruses most prevalent in coinfections: human rhinovirus (HRV) and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and quantified their viral loads according to coinfections and health status, age, cellular abundance and other variables.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Materials and methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Samples from two different cohorts were analyzed: one included hospitalized infants under 12 months of age with acute bronchiolitis (n=719) and the other primary care patients of all ages with symptoms of ARI (n=685). We performed Multiplex PCR on nasopharyngeal swabs, and quantitative PCR on samples positive for HRV or\/and RSV to determine viral loads (VL). Cellular abundance (CA) was also estimated by qPCR targeting the GAPDH gene. Genotyping was performed either directly from first-line molecular panel or by PCR and sequencing for HRV.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>The risks of viral codetection were 4.1 (IC<jats:sub>95<\/jats:sub>[1.8; 10.0]) and 93.9 1 (IC<jats:sub>95<\/jats:sub>[48.7; 190.7]) higher in infants hospitalized for bronchiolitis than in infants in primary care for RSV and HRV respectively (p&amp;lt;0.001). CA was higher in samples positive for multiple viruses than in mono-infected or negative samples (p&amp;lt;0.001), and higher in samples positive for RSV (p&amp;lt;0.001) and HRV (p&amp;lt;0.001) than in negative samples. We found a positive correlation between CA and VL for both RSV and HRV. HRV VL was higher in children than in the elderly (p&amp;lt;0.05), but not RSV VL. HRV VL was higher when detected alone than in samples coinfected with RSV-A and with RSV-B. There was a significant increase of RSV-A VL when codetecting with HRV (p=0.001) and when co-detecting with RSV-B+HRV versus RSV-A+ RSV-B (p=0.02).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>Many parameters influence the natural history of respiratory viral infections, and quantifying respiratory viral loads can help disentangle their contributions to viral outcome.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fcimb.2024.1380855","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,5,13]],"date-time":"2024-05-13T04:26:19Z","timestamp":1715574379000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Unravelling the acute respiratory infection landscape: virus type, viral load, health status and coinfection do matter"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Hortense","family":"Petat","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sandrine","family":"Corbet","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Bryce","family":"Leterrier","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Astrid","family":"Vabret","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Meriadeg","family":"Ar Gouilh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,5,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"B8","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"605","DOI":"10.1097\/01.inf.0000168741.59747.2d","article-title":"Single versus dual respiratory virus infections in hospitalized infants: impact on clinical course of disease and interferon-gamma response","volume":"24","author":"Aberle","year":"2005","journal-title":"Pediatr. 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