Epidemiology and Seasonality of Childhood Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections in the Tropics.

摘要: Infections caused by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in young children worldwide. Understanding seasonal patterns region-specific RSV activity is important to guide resource allocation for existing future treatment prevention strategies. The decades excellent surveillance data that available from the developed countries world incredibly instructive advancing public health initiatives those regions. With few exceptions, these nations positioned geographically across temperate regions world. tropical has improved recent years, but remains spotty, where available, still lacks necessary longitudinal determine amount variation expected over time. However, emerging collected do indicate infection often quite different so well described areas. Here, we provide brief summary regarding what known about general disease Asia, Africa South America, then offer additional country-specific details using examples multiple reports and/or more robust have become available.