ArticleFrontiers in pediatrics2023
The surge of RSV and other respiratory viruses among children during the second COVID-19 pandemic winter season.
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- Prevalence of common respiratory viruses of infants with respiratory tract infections in European countries in the past decade: a systematic review and meta-analysis comparing between the pre-COVID-19, pandemic, and post-COVID-19 periods.European journal of pediatrics · 2026Pooled it
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- Acute Respiratory Tract Infections and Severe Disease Among Hospitalized Children.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Clinical and epidemiological changes in severe viral respiratory infections in pediatric patients after the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- Long Term Sequelae of Mild RSV Infections in Healthy Children Aged 0-3 Years in the Primary Care Setting-A Prospective Two Year Follow Up Observational Study.Journal of medical virology · 2025Observational
- From lockdown to recovery: changing patterns of viral infection severity in a pediatric cohort with asthma.Frontiers in allergy · 2025Article
- Burden of viral respiratory infections in the pediatric intensive care unit: age, virus distribution, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.European journal of pediatrics · 2024Article
- Exploring the paradoxical nature of cold temperature mortality in Europe.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Characterisation of RSV infections in children without chronic diseases aged 0-36 months during the post-COVID-19 winter season 2022/2023.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Article
- Pediatric respiratory pathogen dynamics in Southern Sichuan, China: a retrospective analysis of gender, age, and seasonal trends.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Article
- Aggravated exposure risks of children to multipath transmitted pathogens in indoor environments.iScience · 2023Article
- Spatiotemporal variations of "triple-demic" outbreaks of respiratory infections in the United States in the post-COVID-19 era.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Impact of Nonpharmacological Interventions on Severe Acute Respiratory Infections in Children: From the National Surveillance Database.Journal of Korean medical science · 2023Article
- Clinical Presentation and Co-Detection of Respiratory Pathogens in Children Under 5 Years with Non-COVID-19 Bacterial and Viral Respiratory Tract Infections: A Prospective Study in Białystok, Poland (2021-2022).Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2023Article
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- Comparative analysis of human respiratory syncytial virus evolutionary patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic and pre-pandemic periods.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Background: The non-pharmaceutical measures in the first Covid-19 winter season significantly impacted respiratory pathogens such as RSV, influenza, or metapneumovirus, which cause respiratory infections, especially in infants and young children. This longitudinal prospective study aimed to determine how less strict measures affect the pathogen profile in the second winter season. Methods: From September 2021 till the end of March 2022, 678 children (0-36 months) admitted to Vienna's largest pediatric center with an acute respiratory infection were enrolled in this study. The researchers performed nasal swabs and tested them by multiplex PCR for 23 respiratory pathogens, chronicled clinical features and treatment, and analyzed the effect of lockdown on the pathogen prevalence. Results: The 815 smears of 678 children revealed the most common pathogens to be rhino-/enterovirus (38.5%), RSV (26.7%), and metapneumovirus (7.2%). The lockdown interrupted the early RSV onset in September [RR 0.367, CI (0.184-0.767), Conclusion: With more flexible non-pharmaceutical measures, children aged 0-36 months started presenting again with viral pathogens, such as RSV and metapneumovirus. RSV, associated with a high hospitalization rate, had a very early onset with an abrupt interruption due to the only lockdown.
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