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Respiratory Syncytial Virus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

John T. Sinnott IV ,
Lindy S. Gilchrist  and
Leighton Ellis
John T. Sinnott IV*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of South Florida College of Medicine
Lindy S. Gilchrist
Affiliation:
University of South Florida College of Medicine
Leighton Ellis
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, University of South Florida College of Medicine
*
Tampa General Hospital, PO Box 1289, Tampa, FL 33601
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Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the most important cause of lower respiratory tract infection in outpatients, as well as the major viral cause of nosocomial illness in pediatric inpatients. Immunity to this common pathogen is short lived and reinfection can occur later in life, even into adulthood. Virtually all children have one infection before 24 months and 50% experience two or more episodes of infection. The attack rate is substantial with about half of all infants in a community becoming ill during the season's first epidemic. About 100,000 children in the US each year become ill enough to require hospitalization, the hospitalization rate being 1411,000 during epidemic periods. In certain locations, RSV accounts for about 45% of hospital admissions for respiratory disease in children under two years of age.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 9 , Issue 10 , October 1988 , pp. 465 - 468
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1988 

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