Journal of Infectious Diseases
Journal of Infectious Diseases
5 years ago

Respiratory Syncytial Virus Seasonality: A Global Overview.

Antonio José Justicia-Grande, Peter Sly, Renato T Stein, Nikolaos G Papadopoulos, Federico Martinón-Torres, Anne Greenough, Eugenio Baraldi, Terho Heikkinen, Louis Bont, Asunción Mejías, Pablo Obando-Pacheco, Octavio Ramilo, Irene Rivero-Calle, Harish Nair, Paolo Manzoni, Marta C Nunes, Carmen Rodríguez-Tenreiro, Leyla Kragten-Tabatabaie
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the leading cause of acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI) in children. By the age of 1 year, 60-70% of children have been infected by RSV. In addition, early-life RSV infection is associated with the development of recurrent wheezing and asthma in infancy and childhood. The need for precise epidemiologic data regarding RSV as a worldwide pathogen has been growing steadily as novel RSV therapeutics are reaching the final stages of development. To optimize the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of RSV infection in a timely manner, knowledge about the differences in the timing of the RSV epidemics worldwide is needed. Previous analyses, based on literature reviews of individual reports obtained from medical databases, have fail to provide global country seasonality patterns. Until recently, only certain countries have been recording RSV incidence through their own surveillance systems. This analysis was based on national RSV surveillance reports and medical databases from 27 countries worldwide. This is the first study using original source high-quality surveillance data to establish a global, robust and homogeneous report on global country-specific RSV seasonality.

Publisher URL: http://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiy056

DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiy056

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