Evolution of Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) over Multiple Seasons in New South Wales, Australia

Abstract excerpt

There is an ongoing global pandemic of human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection that results in substantial annual morbidity and mortality. In Australia, RSV is the major cause of acute lower respiratory tract infections (ALRI). Nevertheless, little is known about the extent and origins of genetic diversity of RSV in Australia, nor the factors that shape this diversity. We conducted a genome-scale analysi...

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• Genome, Viral
• Molecular Epidemiology
• Mutation Rate
• New South Wales
• Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Human
• Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections
• Sequence Homology
• Whole Genome Sequencing

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Literature Corpus work

45066f28-7273-5c99-b4ae-e54d69c255ce

DOI

10.20944/preprints201808.0318.v1