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. 2011 May;30(5):442-5.
doi: 10.1097/INF.0b013e318201813b.

Hospitalizations due to respiratory syncytial virus in children with congenital malformations

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Hospitalizations due to respiratory syncytial virus in children with congenital malformations

Philip Zachariah et al. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2011 May.

Abstract

Statewide respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) lower respiratory tract infection hospitalization data of Colorado children with congenital malformations was used to estimate the population-based risk and severity of disease of RSV hospitalizations. Spina bifida without anencephaly, cleft palate, lung agenesis or dysgenesis, and biliary atresia were associated with a higher risk of being hospitalized with RSV lower respiratory tract infection and an increased severity of disease when hospitalized.

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