The role of the respiratory syncytial virus in airway syndromes in childhood英文电子书.pdf

The Role of the Respiratory Syncytial Virus in Airway Syndromes in Childhood Mark L. Everard, MB ChB, FRCP, DM Corresponding author each winter epidemic, approximately a third of a population Mark L. Everard, MB ChB, FRCP, DM will be infected by the virus, although in infancy infection Department of Respiratory Medicine, Sheffield Children’s Hospital, Western Bank, Sheffield, UK. rates run at greater than two thirds of all infants [9]. The E-mail: m.l.everard@sheffield.ac.uk human form of the virus, which is closely related to but dis- Current Allergy and Asthma Reports 2006, 6:97– 102 tinct from the paromyxoviruses, is related to a bovine RSV Current Science Inc. ISSN 1529-7322 that causes LRTI in young claves kept in close proximity. Copyright © 2006 by Current Science Inc. Soon after human RSV was first isolated nearly 50 years ago, it was realized that this virus played a very important role in the induction of LRTI in infancy and was the major The majority of infants admitted to hospital in infancy pathogen responsible for “acute bronchiolitis.” Around with lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) have been the same time, publications were starting to highlight the infected with the respiratory syncytial