Perspective: the potential of wastewater-based surveillance as an economically feasible game changer in reducing the global burden of pediatric respiratory syncytial virus infection

Perspective: the potential of wastewater-based surveillance as an economically feasible game changer in reducing the global burden of pediatric respiratory syncytial virus infection

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the leading viral cause of childhood bronchiolitis and pneumonia causing over 3 million hospitalizations and 100,000 deaths in children under 5 years of age annually. Wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) has proven an effective early warning system for high-conseq...

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Main Authors: Nisha Thampi, Elisabeth Mercier, Bosco Paes, James O. Edwards, Barry Rodgers-Gray, Robert Delatolla
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2024-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Public Health
Subjects:
respiratory syncytial virus
wastewater-based surveillance
economics
pediatric hospitalization
community incidence
season start date
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1316531/full

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