Respiratory Virus Surveillance -- United States, January 1985
Reports of noninfluenza respiratory viruses received at CDC
through January 18, 1985, indicate parainfluenza virus type 3 and
respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are the most common noninfluenza
respiratory viruses isolated so far this respiratory virus season.
Parainfluenza type 3 isolates have been reported from all nine
regions
and in largest numbers from the New England (NE), Mid-Atlantic
(MA),
East North Central (ENC), West South Central (WSC), and Mountain
(MTN)
regions from September through November 1984. RSV began to be
isolated in increasing numbers in the MTN, NE, MA, and South
Atlantic
regions in December (Table 2). Parainfluenza types 1 and 2 have
been
reported from only three and two regions, respectively. In 1983,
these two types had occurred in all nine regions by November 30.
Reported by LL Minnich, MS, CG Ray, MD, Arizona Health Science
Center,
Tucson; DT Imagawa, PhD, MA Keller, MD, Harbor Medical
Center-University of the City of Los Angeles, California; B Lauer,
MD,
M Levin, MD, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver;
HW
Kim, MD, C Brandt, PhD, Children's Hospital National Medical
Center,
District of Columbia; L Pierik, K McIntosh, MD, The Children's
Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; T O'Leary, TC Shope, MD,
University
of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor; HH Balfour, MD, University
of
Minnesota Hospitals, Minneapolis; C Reed, GA Storch, MD, St. Louis
Children's Hospital, Missouri; ME Kumar, MD, Cleveland Metropolitan
General Hospital, Ohio; P Swenson, PhD, North Shore University
Hospital, Manhasset, SM Lipson, PhD, K Szabo, MD, Nassau County
Medical Center, East Meadow, CB Hall, MD, University of Rochester
Medical Center, New York; H Friedman, MD, S Plotkin, MD, The
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; M Kervina, MS, E
Sannella, MS, PF Wright, MD, Vanderbilt University School of
Medicine,
Nashville, Tennessee; L Corey, MD, Children's Orthopedic Hospital,
Seattle, Washington; EL Anderson, MD, RB Belshe, MD, Marshall
Univesity School of Medicine, Huntington, West Virginia; Respective
State Virus Laboratory Directors; Div of Viral Diseases, Center for
Infectious Diseases, CDC.
Editorial Note
Editorial Note: Reports of noninfluenza respiratory virus
isolations
are received from selected university and state virology
laboratories
in the United States. Reports will focus on RSV and parainfluenza
virus types 1, 2, and 3. Parainfluenza virus type 3 is often
isolated
year-round, with peaks occasionally occurring in the late winter or
spring (1,2). Outbreaks of RSV occur each year with peak
isolations
occurring sometime between December and March (3). RSV and
parainfluenza type 3 are the most common causes of lower
respiratory
tract illness among infants and young children. Parainfluenza
types 1
and 2 often cause outbreaks of croup in children in the fall of
alternating years (2).
References
Glezen WP, Frank AL, Taber LH, Kasel JA. Parainfluenza virus
type
3: seasonality and risk of infection and reinfection in young
children. J Infect Dis 1984; 150:851-7.
Glezen WP, Loda FA, Denny FW. Parainfluenza viruses. In:
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AS, ed. Viral infections of humans; epidemiology and control.
New
York: Plenum, 1982:441-53.
Chanock RM, Kim HW, Brandt CD, Parrott RH. Respiratory
syncytial
virus. In: Evans AS, ed. Viral infections of humans;
epidemiology and control. New York: Plenum, 1982:471-89.
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