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Provedor de dados: | 42
País: | Brazil
Título: | Respiratory syncytial virus causes more hospitalizations and deaths in equatorial Brazil than influenza (including during the 2009 pandemic)
Autores: | ALONSO,WLADIMIR J.; TAMERIUS,JAMES; FREITAS,ANDRÉ R.R.
Data: | 2020-01-01
Ano: | 2020
Palavras-chave: | Disease burden; Influenza; RSV; Seasonality; Pandemic; 2009pdm.
Resumo: | Abstract  Despite numerous studies evaluating influenza and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), there is still a lack of knowledge about them, especially in tropical countries. We compared the relative importance of respiratory viruses by examining their spatiotemporal patterns, age-specific hospitalization data and mortality data for 2007-2012 obtained from official sources. The data were aggregated into “respiratory infection seasonal zones” formed combining states that had similar seasonal patterns of pneumonia and influenza (P&amp;I). Equatorial-North where P&amp;I peaks in the middle of the year, Equatorial-South where P&amp;I peaks in the first semester and coincides with the rainy-season, Subtropical where P&amp;I peaks are clearly concentrated in the winter season, and Tropical Midwest and South-East where P&amp;I peaks are a transition between the South-Equatorial and the Sub-tropical. Our analyses indicate that RSV has higher impact than influenza in equatorial region of Brazil, which was particularly evident during the circulation of the 2009pdm strain, and suggests that seasonal influenza may have a lower impact in Equatorial Brazil (and perhaps in other tropical regions of the world) than previously considered. Accordingly, we suggest that the broad assumption that influenza is the main cause of viral respiratory hospitalizations and death in equatorial regions be questioned with greater emphasis in future studies.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652020000100904
Editor: | Academia Brasileira de Ciências
Relação: | 10.1590/0001-3765202020180584
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências  v.92 n.1 2020
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess