Characterisation of RSV infections in children without chronic diseases aged 0-36 months during the post-COVID-19 winter season 2022/2023.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is one of the leading causes of hospitalisation, morbidity, and mortality due to respiratory infection in the first years of life. This longitudinal prospective study outlines the 2022/23 season's viral patterns in Austria after the epidemiological changes determined by public health measures. We aimed to highlight differences within the RSV subtypes and genotypes in 0-36-month-old children without chronic diseases in the outpatient setting.

Methods

From November 2022 to March 2023 children younger than 36 months admitted to Vienna's largest paediatric primary healthcare centre with an acute respiratory infection were enrolled in this study. Nasal swabs and multiplex PCR panels detected 20 viruses including RSV subtypes and genoty

SUBMITTER: Meier K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10876782 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature