Transmission of Respiratory Syncytial Virus genotypes in Cali, Colombia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Colombia's climatological variety, added to pathogen diversity, creates local niches for infectious diseases. In Bogotá, respiratory syncytial virus causes 30%-52% of the cases of respiratory infections. In coastal or inter-Andean cities with higher temperature and longer dry seasons, frequency of this virus is 7%-13%. By 2017, increased hospitalizations due to airway infections occurred in regions whose weather is differently influenced by "El Niño Southern Oscillation" than in Bogotá, although microbial diversity might have also been involved.

Methods

For Cali, an inter-Andean city with warm tropical weather, records of respiratory syncytial virus from 2014 to 2018, in children two years old or younger, were analyzed, and genotypes transmitted during 2016-2017 w

SUBMITTER: Londono-Avendano MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8189202 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature