Modeling household dynamics on Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV).

ABSTRACT: Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is the most common cause of respiratory tract infection in infants and children and shows increasing trend among elderly people worldwide. In many developing country settings, population and household structures have gone through some significant changes in the past decades, namely fewer births, more elderly population, and smaller household size but more RSV high-risk individuals. These dynamics have been captured in a mathematical model with RSV transmission dynamics to predict the disease burden on the detailed population for future targeted interventions. The population and disease dynamics model was constructed and tested against the hospitalization data for Acute Lower Respiratory Tract Infection due to RSV in rural Thai settings between 2005 and 201

SUBMITTER: Mahikul W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6615606 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature