Article
Measurement of antibody against contemporary virus lineages of human respiratory syncytial virus sub-group A in infants and their mothers.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology - 1 May 2004
McGill A, Greensill J, Craft A W, Fenwick F, Toms G L
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Human respiratory syncytial virus (hRSV) infects the majority of infants in their first year of life. Maternal antibodies offer some protection although a small proportion of infected infants develop bronchiolitis and require admission to hospital. A number of lineages of the virus co-circulate in the population and the prevalent virus lineage changes from epidemic to epidemic. The effect of antigenic...
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