ArticleScience advances2021
Community factors associated with local epidemic timing of respiratory syncytial virus: A spatiotemporal modeling study.
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- Understanding the local-level variations in seasonality of human respiratory syncytial virus infection: a systematic analysis.BMC medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Urban environment and RSV: a retrospective observational study of neighbourhood factors associated with the risk of severe disease in the infant population of a metropolitan area, Lyon, France.BMC public health · 2025Observational
- Genomic Insights Into Respiratory Syncytial Virus Circulation Patterns and Neutralization by Anti-F Monoclonal Antibodies in Panama (2018-2024).Influenza and other respiratory viruses · 2025Article
- Exploring RSV Transmission Patterns in Different Age Groups in the United States.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Respiratory viral infections: when and where? A scoping review of spatiotemporal methods.Journal of global health · 2025Article
- RSV Hospital Admissions During the First 2 Seasons Among Children With Chronic Medical Conditions.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Spatial Transmission Dynamics of Respiratory Syncytial Virus A in China.Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2025Article
- Respiratory syncytial virus: health burden, disease prevention, and treatment-recent progress and lessons learned.microLife · 2025Review
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- Comparison of the Burden and Temporal Pattern of Hospitalisations Associated With Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Before and After COVID-19 in New Zealand.Influenza and other respiratory viruses · 2024Article
- Global patterns of rebound to normal RSV dynamics following COVID-19 suppression.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Seasonality of influenza-like illness and short-term forecasting model in Chongqing from 2010 to 2022.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Modeling the impact of COVID-19 nonpharmaceutical interventions on respiratory syncytial virus transmission in South Africa.Influenza and other respiratory viruses · 2023Article
- Why has the epidemiology of RSV changed during the COVID-19 pandemic?EClinicalMedicine · 2023Review
- Quantifying the RSV immunity debt following COVID-19: a public health matter.The Lancet. Infectious diseases · 2023Article
- Predicted effectiveness of vaccines and extended half-life monoclonal antibodies against RSV hospitalizations in children.NPJ vaccines · 2022Article
- Assessing the Clinical and Socioeconomic Burden of Respiratory Syncytial Virus in Children Aged Under 5 Years in Primary Care: Protocol for a Prospective Cohort Study in England and Report on the Adaptations of the Study to the COVID-19 Pandemic.JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
- Relative timing of respiratory syncytial virus epidemics in summer 2021 across the United States was similar to a typical winter season.Influenza and other respiratory viruses · 2022Article
- Challenges in Maximizing Impacts of Preventive Strategies against Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Disease in Young Children.The Yale journal of biology and medicine · 2022Review
- RSV reemergence in Argentina since the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) causes a large burden of morbidity in young children and the elderly. Spatial variability in the timing of RSV epidemics provides an opportunity to probe the factors driving its transmission, including factors that influence epidemic seeding and growth rates. Using hospitalization data from Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York, we estimated epidemic timing at the ZIP code level using harmonic regression and then used a Bayesian meta-regression model to evaluate correlates of epidemic timing. Earlier epidemics were associated with larger household size and greater population density. Nearby localities had similar epidemic timing. Our results suggest that RSV epidemics grow faster in areas with more local contact opportunities, and that epidemic spread follows a spatial diffusion process based on geographic proximity. Our findings can inform the timing of delivery of RSV extended half-life prophylaxis and maternal vaccines and guide future studies on the transmission dynamics of RSV.
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