References & Resources

RSV Global Surveillance

• Surveillance for Respiratory Syncytial Virus in CDC’s Global Disease Detection Network: Epidemiology, Disease Burden and Clinical CharacteristicsExternal. 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 InfectionExternal. Pediatrics. 2014;134(2):415-20.

RSV Mortality and Hospitalizations

• Hall CB, Weinberg GA, Blumkin AK, et al. Respiratory syncytial virus-associated hospitalizations among children less than 24 months of ageExternal. Pediatrics. 2013;132(2):e341-348. doi: 310.1542/peds.2013-0303. Epub 2013 Jul 1522.
• Hall CB, Weinberg GA, Iwane MK, et al. The burden of respiratory syncytial virus infection in young childrenExternal. N Engl J Med. 2009;360(6):588-598.
• 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 StatesExternal. JAMA. 2003;289(2):179-86.

RSV Seasonality

• Rose EB, Wheatley A, Langley G, Gerber S, Haynes A. Respiratory Syncytial Virus Seasonality – United States, 2014-2017. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2018;67(2):71-76.
• Midgley CM, Haynes AK, Baumgardner JL, Chommanard C, Demas SW, et al. Determining the Seasonality of Respiratory Syncytial Virus in the United States: The Impact of Increased Molecular TestingExternal. J Infect Dis. 2017;216(3):345-55.
• Mullins JA, LaMonte AC, Bresee JS, Anderson LJ. Substantial Variability in Community Respiratory Syncytial Virus Season TimingExternal. 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 AdultsExternal. New Engl J Med. 2005;352(17):1749-59.
• Falsey AR, Walsh EE. Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection in AdultsExternal. 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 AlaskaExternal.
• Bruden DJ, Singleton R, Hawk CS, et al. Eighteen Years of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Surveillance: Changes in Seasonality and Hospitalization Rates in Southwestern Alaska Native ChildrenExternal. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2015;34(9):945-950.

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.