Global epidemiology of non-influenza RNA respiratory viruses: data gaps and a growing need for surveillance.

ABSTRACT: Together with influenza, the non-influenza RNA respiratory viruses (NIRVs), which include respiratory syncytial virus, parainfluenza viruses, coronavirus, rhinovirus, and human metapneumovirus, represent a considerable global health burden, as recognised by WHO's Battle against Respiratory Viruses initiative. By contrast with influenza viruses, little is known about the contemporaneous global diversity of these viruses, and the relevance of such for development of pharmaceutical interventions. Although far less advanced than for influenza, antiviral drugs and vaccines are in different stages of development for several of these viruses, but no interventions have been licensed. This scarcity of global genetic data represents a substantial knowledge gap and impediment to the eventual licensin

SUBMITTER: Tang JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7164797 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature