circulating strains of human respiratory syncytial virus in central and south america传播人类呼吸道合胞体病毒株在中美洲和南美洲.pdfVIP

Circulating Strains of Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus in Central and South America 1 1 1 1 2 Merly Sovero , Josefina Garcia *, Tadeusz Kochel , V. Alberto Laguna-Torres , Jorge Gomez , Wilson 3 4 5 6 7 Chicaiza , Melvin Barrantes , Felix Sanchez , Mirna Jimenez , Guillermo Comach , Ivette Lorenzana de 8 9 10 1 Rivera , Ana E. Arango , Roberto Agudo , Eric S. Halsey ´ ´ ´ 1 United States Naval Medical Research Unit 6, Lima, Peru, 2 Direccion General de Epidemiologıa, Ministerio de Salud, Lima, Peru, 3 Hospital Vozandes, Quito, Ecuador, 4 Hospital Solano, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 5 Hospital Infantil Manuel de Jesus Rivera, Managua, Nicaragua, 6 Hospital Nacional de Metapan, Metapan, El Salvador, ´ ´ 7 LARDIDEV-Biomed-UC, Maracay, Venezuela, 8 Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 9 Universidad de Antioquia, Medellın, Colombia, ´ ´ 10 Direccion General de Epidemiologıa, Ministerio de Salud, Cochabamba, Bolivia Abstract Human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV) is a major cause of viral lower respiratory tract infections among infants and young children. HRSV strains vary genetically and antigenically and have been classified into two broad subgroups, A