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Off-season RSV epidemics in Australia after easing of COVID-19 restrictions
Human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is an important cause of acute respiratory infection with the most severe disease in the young and elderly. Non-pharmaceutical interventions and travel restrictions for controlling COVID-19 have impacted the circulation of most respiratory viruses including RS...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9130497/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35610217 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30485-3 |
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author | Eden, John-Sebastian Sikazwe, Chisha Xie, Ruopeng Deng, Yi-Mo Sullivan, Sheena G. Michie, Alice Levy, Avram Cutmore, Elena Blyth, Christopher C. Britton, Philip N. Crawford, Nigel Dong, Xiaomin Dwyer, Dominic E. Edwards, Kimberly M. Horsburgh, Bethany A. Foley, David Kennedy, Karina Minney-Smith, Cara Speers, David Tulloch, Rachel L. Holmes, Edward C. Dhanasekaran, Vijaykrishna Smith, David W. Kok, Jen Barr, Ian G. |
author_facet | Eden, John-Sebastian Sikazwe, Chisha Xie, Ruopeng Deng, Yi-Mo Sullivan, Sheena G. Michie, Alice Levy, Avram Cutmore, Elena Blyth, Christopher C. Britton, Philip N. Crawford, Nigel Dong, Xiaomin Dwyer, Dominic E. Edwards, Kimberly M. Horsburgh, Bethany A. Foley, David Kennedy, Karina Minney-Smith, Cara Speers, David Tulloch, Rachel L. Holmes, Edward C. Dhanasekaran, Vijaykrishna Smith, David W. Kok, Jen Barr, Ian G. |
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description | Human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is an important cause of acute respiratory infection with the most severe disease in the young and elderly. Non-pharmaceutical interventions and travel restrictions for controlling COVID-19 have impacted the circulation of most respiratory viruses including RSV globally, particularly in Australia, where during 2020 the normal winter epidemics were notably absent. However, in late 2020, unprecedented widespread RSV outbreaks occurred, beginning in spring, and extending into summer across two widely separated regions of the Australian continent, New South Wales (NSW) and Australian Capital Territory (ACT) in the east, and Western Australia. Through genomic sequencing we reveal a major reduction in RSV genetic diversity following COVID-19 emergence with two genetically distinct RSV-A clades circulating cryptically, likely localised for several months prior to an epidemic surge in cases upon relaxation of COVID-19 control measures. The NSW/ACT clade subsequently spread to the neighbouring state of Victoria and to cause extensive outbreaks and hospitalisations in early 2021. These findings highlight the need for continued surveillance and sequencing of RSV and other respiratory viruses during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, as mitigation measures may disrupt seasonal patterns, causing larger or more severe outbreaks. |
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spelling | pubmed-91304972022-05-26 Off-season RSV epidemics in Australia after easing of COVID-19 restrictions Eden, John-Sebastian Sikazwe, Chisha Xie, Ruopeng Deng, Yi-Mo Sullivan, Sheena G. Michie, Alice Levy, Avram Cutmore, Elena Blyth, Christopher C. Britton, Philip N. Crawford, Nigel Dong, Xiaomin Dwyer, Dominic E. Edwards, Kimberly M. Horsburgh, Bethany A. Foley, David Kennedy, Karina Minney-Smith, Cara Speers, David Tulloch, Rachel L. Holmes, Edward C. Dhanasekaran, Vijaykrishna Smith, David W. Kok, Jen Barr, Ian G. Nat Commun Article Human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is an important cause of acute respiratory infection with the most severe disease in the young and elderly. Non-pharmaceutical interventions and travel restrictions for controlling COVID-19 have impacted the circulation of most respiratory viruses including RSV globally, particularly in Australia, where during 2020 the normal winter epidemics were notably absent. However, in late 2020, unprecedented widespread RSV outbreaks occurred, beginning in spring, and extending into summer across two widely separated regions of the Australian continent, New South Wales (NSW) and Australian Capital Territory (ACT) in the east, and Western Australia. Through genomic sequencing we reveal a major reduction in RSV genetic diversity following COVID-19 emergence with two genetically distinct RSV-A clades circulating cryptically, likely localised for several months prior to an epidemic surge in cases upon relaxation of COVID-19 control measures. The NSW/ACT clade subsequently spread to the neighbouring state of Victoria and to cause extensive outbreaks and hospitalisations in early 2021. These findings highlight the need for continued surveillance and sequencing of RSV and other respiratory viruses during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, as mitigation measures may disrupt seasonal patterns, causing larger or more severe outbreaks. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-05-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9130497/ /pubmed/35610217 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30485-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Eden, John-Sebastian Sikazwe, Chisha Xie, Ruopeng Deng, Yi-Mo Sullivan, Sheena G. Michie, Alice Levy, Avram Cutmore, Elena Blyth, Christopher C. Britton, Philip N. Crawford, Nigel Dong, Xiaomin Dwyer, Dominic E. Edwards, Kimberly M. Horsburgh, Bethany A. Foley, David Kennedy, Karina Minney-Smith, Cara Speers, David Tulloch, Rachel L. Holmes, Edward C. Dhanasekaran, Vijaykrishna Smith, David W. Kok, Jen Barr, Ian G. Off-season RSV epidemics in Australia after easing of COVID-19 restrictions |
title | Off-season RSV epidemics in Australia after easing of COVID-19 restrictions |
title_full | Off-season RSV epidemics in Australia after easing of COVID-19 restrictions |
title_fullStr | Off-season RSV epidemics in Australia after easing of COVID-19 restrictions |
title_full_unstemmed | Off-season RSV epidemics in Australia after easing of COVID-19 restrictions |
title_short | Off-season RSV epidemics in Australia after easing of COVID-19 restrictions |
title_sort | off-season rsv epidemics in australia after easing of covid-19 restrictions |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9130497/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35610217 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30485-3 |
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