Progress in understanding and controlling respiratory syncytial virus: still crazy after all these years

PL Collins, JA Melero - Virus research, 2011 - Elsevier
Human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a ubiquitous pathogen that infects everyone
worldwide early in life and is a leading cause of severe lower respiratory tract disease in the …

Toward primary prevention of asthma. Reviewing the evidence for early-life respiratory viral infections as modifiable risk factors to prevent childhood asthma

AS Feldman, Y He, ML Moore… - American journal of …, 2015 - atsjournals.org
A first step in primary disease prevention is identifying common, modifiable risk factors that
contribute to a significant proportion of disease development. Infant respiratory viral infection …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic diversity and its impact on disease severity in respiratory syncytial virus subtype-A and-B bronchiolitis before and after pandemic restrictions in Rome

A Pierangeli, R Nenna, M Fracella, C Scagnolari… - Journal of Infection, 2023 - Elsevier
Objectives To scrutinize whether the high circulation of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)
observed in 2021–2022 and 2022–2023 was due to viral diversity, we characterized RSV-A …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic variability of human respiratory syncytial virus A strains circulating in Ontario: a novel genotype with a 72 nucleotide G gene duplication

AR Eshaghi, VR Duvvuri, R Lai, JT Nadarajah, A Li… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV) is the main cause of acute lower respiratory
infections in children under 2 years of age and causes repeated infections throughout life …

Differential pathogenesis of respiratory syncytial virus clinical isolates in BALB/c mice

KL Stokes, MH Chi, K Sakamoto, DC Newcomb… - Journal of …, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
Airway mucus is a hallmark of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) lower respiratory tract illness.
Laboratory RSV strains differentially induce airway mucus production in mice. Here, we …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic diversity and evolutionary insights of respiratory syncytial virus A ON1 genotype: global and local transmission dynamics

VR Duvvuri, A Granados, P Rosenfeld, J Bahl… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) A ON1 genotype, first detected in 2010 in Ontario,
Canada, has been documented in 21 countries to date. This study investigated persistence …

[HTML][HTML] Characteristics and their clinical relevance of respiratory syncytial virus types and genotypes circulating in Northern Italy in five consecutive winter seasons

S Esposito, A Piralla, A Zampiero, S Bianchini… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
In order to investigate the genetic diversity and patterns of the co-circulating genotypes of
respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and their possible relationships with the severity of RSV …

Ten years of global evolution of the human respiratory syncytial virus BA genotype with a 60-nucleotide duplication in the G protein gene

A Trento, I Casas, A Calderón… - Journal of …, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
The emergence of natural isolates of human respiratory syncytial virus group B (HRSV-B)
with a 60-nucleotide (nt) duplication in the G protein gene in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic variation in attachment glycoprotein genes of human respiratory syncytial virus subgroups a and B in children in recent five consecutive years

G Cui, R Zhu, Y Qian, J Deng, L Zhao, Y Sun, F Wang - PLoS One, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV) outranks other viral agents as the cause of
respiratory tract diseases in children worldwide. Molecular epidemiological study of the virus …

Evolutionary history of Ebola virus

YH Li, SP Chen - Epidemiology & Infection, 2014 - cambridge.org
Since Ebola virus was discovered in 1970s, the virus has persisted in Africa and sporadic
fatal outbreaks in humans and non-human primates have been reported. However, the …