References & Resources

RSV Global Surveillance

• Surveillance for Respiratory Syncytial Virus in CDC's Global Disease Detection Network: Epidemiology, Disease Burden and Clinical Characteristics. J Infect Dis. 2013;208(S3):S165-246.

RSV Prophylaxis Guidelines

• American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Infectious Diseases and Bronchiolitis Guidelines Committee. Updated Guidance for Palivizumab Prophylaxis Among Infants and Young Children at Increased Risk of Hospitalization for Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection. Pediatrics. 2014;134(2):415-20.

RSV Mortality and Hospitalizations

• Thompson WW, Shay DK, Weintraub E, Brammer L, Cox N, Anderson LJ, Fukuda K. Mortality Associated with Influenza and Respiratory Syncytial Virus in the United States. JAMA. 2003;289(2):179-86.
• Shay DK, Holman RC, Newman RD, Liu LL, Stout JW, Anderson LJ. Bronchiolitis-Associated Hospitalizations Among US Children, 1980-1996. JAMA. 1999;282(15):1440-46.

RSV Seasonality

• Mullins JA, LaMonte AC, Bresee JS, Anderson LJ. Substantial Variability in Community Respiratory Syncytial Virus Season Timing. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2003;22:1-0.

RSV in the Elderly

• Falsey AR, Hennessey RN, Formica MA, Cox C, Walsh EE. Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection in Elderly and High-Risk Adults. New Engl J Med. 2005;352(17):1749-59.
• Falsey AR, Walsh EE. Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection in Adults. Clin Microbiol Rev. 2000;13(3):371-84.

RSV in Special Populations

• Journal of Medical Virology 82:1282–1290 (2010) Viral Respiratory Infections in Hospitalized and Community Control Children in Alaska.

RSV—General Information

• Respiratory Syncytial Virus and Metapneumovirus. In Fields Virology Knipe DM, Howley PM, eds. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007:1601-1646.