Emerging Infectious Diseases (Oct 2024)

Respiratory Syncytial Virus Prevalence and Risk Factors among Healthy Term Infants, United States

  • Ferdinand Cacho,
  • Tebeb Gebretsadik,
  • Larry J. Anderson,
  • James D. Chappell,
  • Christian Rosas-Salazar,
  • Justin R. Ortiz,
  • Tina Hartert

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3010.240609
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 30, no. 10
pp. 2199 – 2202

Abstract

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In a population-based birth cohort study of respiratory syncytial virus surveillance in the United States, 897/1,680 (53.4%) children were infected during infancy; 25 (2.8%) of those were hospitalized. Among symptomatic infants, 143/324 (44.1%) had lower respiratory tract infections. These data provide benchmarks to monitor effects of maternal vaccines and extended half-life monoclonal antibodies.

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