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Transmission of respiratory syncytial virus in households : who acquires infection from whom?

2013-01-01

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Households represent a setting of frequent and intense contacts and hence are conducive to the spread of respiratory viruses, such as respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Infants are most vulnerable to severe RSV disease but a vaccine is not yet available hence the need to explore alternate strategies of protecting them. Such strategies would require better understanding of who infects the infants. During the RSV se...

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Literature Corpus work: e1caf918-b197-55f8-b16c-013b1cfc20df
DOI: 10.21954/ou.ro.0000f04b

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