Off-season RSV epidemics in Australia after easing of COVID-19 restrictions
The University of Sydney · Taronga Conservation Society Australia · +18 more institutions
Abstract
Human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is an important cause of acute respiratory infection with the most severe disease in the young and elderly. Non-pharmaceutical interventions and travel restrictions for controlling COVID-19 have impacted the circulation of most respiratory viruses including RSV globally, particularly in Australia, where during 2020 the normal winter epidemics were notably absent. However, in late 2020, unprecedented widespread RSV outbreaks occurred, beginning in spring, and extending into summer across two widely separated regions of the Australian continent, New South Wales (NSW) and Australian Capital Territory (ACT) in the east, and Western Australia. Through genomic sequencing we…
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Authors
34- JEJohn‐Sebastian EdenCorresponding
The University of Sydney, Taronga Conservation Society Australia, Westmead Institute for Medical Research
- CSChisha Sikazwe
The University of Western Australia, Pathwest Laboratory Medicine
- RXRuopeng Xie
HKU-Pasteur Research Pole, University of Hong Kong
- YDYi‐Mo Deng
The Royal Melbourne Hospital, The University of Melbourne, Peter Doherty Institute
- SGSheena G. Sullivan
The Royal Melbourne Hospital, The University of Melbourne, Peter Doherty Institute
Topics & keywords
- Outbreak
- Pandemic
- Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
- Clade
- Virology
- Biology
- Disease
- Medicine
- Good health and well-being