Respiratory syncytial virus

A Jha, H Jarvis, C Fraser… - SARS, MERS and other …, 2016 - library.oapen.org
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection has an estimated global incidence of 33 million
cases in children younger than 5 years, with 10% requiring hospital admission and up to …

RSV-specific airway resident memory CD8+ T cells and differential disease severity after experimental human infection

A Jozwik, MS Habibi, A Paras, J Zhu, A Guvenel… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
In animal models, resident memory CD8+ T (Trm) cells assist in respiratory virus elimination
but their importance in man has not been determined. Here, using experimental human …

Impaired antibody-mediated protection and defective IgA B-cell memory in experimental infection of adults with respiratory syncytial virus

MS Habibi, A Jozwik, S Makris, J Dunning… - American journal of …, 2015 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: Despite relative antigenic stability, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) reinfects
throughout life. After more than 40 years of research, no effective human vaccine exists and …

Protective and harmful immunity to RSV infection

PJM Openshaw, C Chiu, FJ Culley… - Annual review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is an exceptional mucosal pathogen. It specializes in
infection of the ciliated respiratory epithelium, causing disease of variable severity with little …

Outcomes of respiratory viral-bacterial co-infection in adult hospitalized patients

Y Liu, L Ling, SH Wong, MHT Wang, JR Fitzgerald… - …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Viral infections of the respiratory tract represent a major global health concern.
Co-infection with bacteria may contribute to severe disease and increased mortality in …

Immunity to RSV in early-life

L Lambert, AM Sagfors, PJM Openshaw… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is the commonest cause of severe respiratory infection in
infants, leading to over 3 million hospitalizations and around 66,000 deaths worldwide each …

Controlled human infection models to accelerate vaccine development

RKM Choy, AL Bourgeois… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
The timelines for develo** vaccines against infectious diseases are lengthy, and often
vaccines that reach the stage of large phase 3 field trials fail to provide the desired level of …

Progression of whole-blood transcriptional signatures from interferon-induced to neutrophil-associated patterns in severe influenza

J Dunning, S Blankley, LT Hoang, M Cox… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Transcriptional profiles and host-response biomarkers are used increasingly to investigate
the severity, subtype and pathogenesis of disease. We now describe whole-blood mRNA …

[HTML][HTML] Does respiratory syncytial virus lower respiratory illness in early life cause recurrent wheeze of early childhood and asthma? Critical review of the evidence …

AJ Driscoll, SH Arshad, L Bont, SM Brunwasser… - Vaccine, 2020 - Elsevier
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a leading cause of lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI)
and hospitalization in infants and children globally. Many observational studies have found …

Antiviral B cell and T cell immunity in the lungs

C Chiu, PJ Openshaw - Nature immunology, 2015 - nature.com
Respiratory viruses are frequent causes of repeated common colds, bronchitis and
pneumonia, which often occur unpredictably as epidemics and pandemics. Despite those …