Elucidating the Outpatient Burden of RSV Disease in Children.

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• Alternative Title:
  The Lancet. Respiratory Medicine, 2025, v. 13, no. 2: Elucidating the Outpatient Burden of RSV Disease in Children.
• Journal Article:
  The Lancet. Respiratory Medicine
• Personal Author:
  Dawood, Fatimah S ; McMorrow, Meredith L
• Description:
  Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) was first identified as a cause of human infection more than six decades ago, after the virus was isolated from respiratory swabs from two children with outpatient illnesses.1 Studies of RSV in hospitalised children have predominated because RSV is a leading cause of severe lower respiratory tract infection in infants and young children.2 In a 2009 landmark paper on RSV burden in children younger than 5 years, Hall and colleagues noted "the total burden of RSV infection during the first 5 years of life remains poorly defined, particularly in the outpatient setting".3 In their study, Hall and colleagues prospectively surveilled medically attended acute respiratory tract infection via systematic RSV testing in children younger than 5 years in three US counties, and found that RSV was associated with 355 (16·3%) of 2175 and 173 (22·1%) of 784 annual outpatient visits for acute respiratory tract infection in children younger than 5 years and those younger than 1 year, respectively.
• Content Notes:
  Author manuscript
• Subjects:
  • Child, Hospitalized
  • Classification
  • Outpatients
  • Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections
  • Respiratory Syncytial Viruses
  • Respiratory Tract Infections
• Source:
  The Lancet. Respiratory Medicine, 2025, v. 13, no. 2
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(24)00402-8
• ISSN:
  2213-2600 ; 2213-2619
• Pubmed ID:
  39799950
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC12833739
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Pages in Document:
  106-108 (3 pdf pages)
• Volume:
  13
• Issue:
  2
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/261781/cdc_261781_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 36.60 KB]
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:257b0bb4664b14d013a841cbc68a6a87bada2ad8e107da3da5d1363237c0d3386d0ee7842e0fdd5ca86fe655a7e14286ce778ee4ddbaabb925b736b595b9eee2