Saverio Caini, Jean-Sebastien Casalegno, Ana Paula Rodrigues, Vernon Lee, Cheryl Cohen, Q Sue Huang, Alfredo Bruno Caicedo, Anne Teirlinck, Raquel Guiomar, Li Wei Ang, Jocelyn Moyes, Tim Wood, Doménica de Mora, Mathieu Bangert, Rolf Kramer, Lisa Staadegaard, Susanne Heemskerk, Jojanneke van Summeren, Adam Meijer, John Paget
OBJECTIVES: We aimed to study whether the percentwise age distribution of RSV cases changes over time during annual epidemics. METHODS: We used surveillance data (2008-2019) from the Netherlands, Lyon (France), Portugal, Singapore, Ecuador, South Africa, and New Zealand. In each country, every season was divided into "epidemic quarters", i.e. periods corresponding to each quartile of RSV cases. Multinomial logistic regression models were fitted to evaluate whether the likelihood of RSV cases being aged <1 or ≥5 years (vs...
April 5, 2024: Journal of Infection