Decreased human respiratory syncytial virus activity during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan: an ecological time-series analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), such as sanitary measures and travel restrictions, aimed at controlling the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), may affect the transmission dynamics of human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV). We aimed to quantify the contribution of the sales of hand hygiene products and the number of international and domestic airline passenger arrivals on HRSV epidemic in Japan.

Methods

The monthly number of HRSV cases per sentinel site (HRSV activity) in 2020 was compared with the average of the corresponding period in the previous 6 years (from January 2014 to December 2020) using a monthly paired t-test. A generalized linear gamma regression model was used to regress the time-series of the monthly HRSV activ

SUBMITTER: Wagatsuma K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8329631 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature