Novel Respiratory Syncytial Virus Subtype ON1 among Children, Cape Town, South Africa, 2012

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To the Editor: Human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a common cause of severe acute lower respiratory tract infection in young children, accounting for ≈160,000 deaths/year worldwide (1,2). As part of an RSV nosocomial transmission study, we detected RSV genotype ON1, which was identified during November 2010­–February 2011 as a novel genotype in Ontario, Canada, in samples from children in a tertiary...

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