Respiratory syncytial virus infection and immunity

Bovine respiratory syncytial virus infection.

Bovine respiratory syncytial virus (BRSV) belongs to the pneumovirus genus within the family Paramyxoviridae and is a major cause of respiratory disease in young calves. BRSV is enveloped and contains a negative sense, single-stranded RNA genome encoding 11 proteins. The virus replicates predominantly in ciliated respiratory epithelial cells but also in type II pneumocytes. It appears to cause ...

Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Infection

Breast-feeding and respiratory syncytial virus infection.

The pattern of breast-feeding in 127 infants admitted to hospital with respiratory syncytial virus infection was compared with that in 503 age-matched controls. Thirty per cent of children with infection had been breast-fed compared with 49% of controls. The approximate relative risk of being admitted to hospital with respiratory syncytial virus infection if not breast-fed was 2.2. Several othe...

Cytokines and respiratory syncytial virus infection.

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a single-stranded negative sense RNA virus in the Paramyxovirus family that is a major cause of morbidity and life-threatening lower respiratory tract disease in infants and young children worldwide. RSV is recognized as a ubiquitous virus having considerable worldwide disease burden. Studies investigating the immune response and disease pathogenesis associa...

Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection and Bronchiolitis

4. Learn the epidemiologic and experimental information suggesting the existence of a link between early-life infection with RSV and the subsequent development of recurrent wheezing and asthma in childhood and adolescence. AUTHORDISCLOSUREDr Perez has disclosed no financial relationships relevant to this article. Dr Piedimonte has disclosed he receives research grant NHLBI HL-061007 from the Na...