ReviewViruses2021
Epidemiology and Seasonality of Childhood Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections in the Tropics.
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33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 41 citations in OpenAlex.
- Economic burden of respiratory syncytial virus disease in Latin America: A systematic review.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2024Pooled it
- Economic and health burden of severe respiratory syncytial virus infection among hospitalised children at three tertiary hospitals in Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia: a two-year prospective multicentre cohort study.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2026Article
- Subnational Heterogeneity in Respiratory Syncytial Virus Seasonality in Tropical Colombia, 2022-2024.Open forum infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Analysis of the Economic and Public Health Impact of New Immunization Strategies in Infants Against Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) in Colombia.Infectious diseases and therapy · 2026Article
- Predicting the burden of co-infections in seasonally driven dynamics of pediatric rotavirus and norovirus.Infectious Disease Modelling · 2026Article
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- Respiratory virus dynamics in a tropical region: Insights from Yucatán, México (2018-2024).Epidemiology and infection · 2026Article
- Epidemiology of viral and atypical bacterial respiratory infections among children hospitalised at a Kenyan tertiary referral centre: a cross sectional multiplex PCR study.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Article
- Sentinel surveillance of acute respiratory infection (ARI) in children under five years old from 2015 to 2022 at a high-complexity health care institution in Cali, Colombia.Journal of global health · 2025Article
- Unraveling the mechanisms of virus-induced asthma exacerbation: epithelial injury, immune dysregulation, and novel interventions.Chinese medical journal pulmonary and critical care medicine · 2025Review
- Characterisation of the respiratory syncytial virus seasonality and its environmental factors in the Americas-a multi-country observational study using routine surveillance networks.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2025Article
- Beyond the first breath: comprehensive respiratory syncytial virus prevention through maternal immunization and infant immunoprophylaxis.Asian biomedicine : research, reviews and news · 2025Review
- Risk factors and circulation pattern of respiratory syncytial virus in children under 2 years in Maputo, Mozambique.International health · 2025Article
- Clinical, Meteorological, and Air Quality Factors Associated with Ambulatory Pediatric Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection in Machala, Ecuador, 2018-2023.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Incidence of RSV in Adults: A Comprehensive Review of Observational Studies and Critical Gaps in Information.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2024Review
- [Epidemiological characteristics of respiratory syncytial virus infection in children in Nanchang and its correlation with climate environmental factors].Zhongguo dang dai er ke za zhi = Chinese journal of contemporary pediatrics · 2024Article
- Phylogenetic and Sequence Analyses of the Variable Region in the Glycoprotein Gene of the Respiratory Syncytial Virus Isolated from Iraqi Patients.The Malaysian journal of medical sciences : MJMS · 2024Article
- Characterization of Respiratory Viruses in Patients with Acute Respiratory Infection in the City of Barranquilla during the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 Pandemic.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Burden of Disease Due to Respiratory Syncytial Virus in Adults in Five Middle-Income Countries.Infectious disease reports · 2024Article
- Respiratory syncytial virus-associated pneumonia in primary care in Malawi.Journal of tropical pediatrics · 2024Article
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Abstract
Infections caused by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in young children worldwide. Understanding seasonal patterns of region-specific RSV activity is important to guide resource allocation for existing and future treatment and prevention strategies. The decades of excellent RSV surveillance data that are available from the developed countries of the world are incredibly instructive in advancing public health initiatives in those regions. With few exceptions, these developed nations are positioned geographically across temperate regions of the world. RSV surveillance across tropical regions of the world has improved in recent years, but remains spotty, and where available, still lacks the necessary longitudinal data to determine the amount of seasonal variation expected over time. However, existing and emerging data collected across tropical regions of the world do indicate that patterns of infection are often quite different from those so well described in temperate areas. Here, we provide a brief summary regarding what is known about general patterns of RSV disease activity across tropical Asia, Africa and South America, then offer additional country-specific details using examples where multiple reports and/or more robust surveillance data have become available.
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