Publications - Respiratory Syncytial Virus

RSV diagnosis

Stockton J, Ellis JS, Saville M, Clewley J, Zambon MC. Multiplex PCR for the detection of influenza and RSV in respiratory specimens. J Clin Microbiol 1998; 36: 2990-5.

Vaccination and treatment

Goddard NL, Cooke MC, Gupta RK, Nguyen-Van-Tam JS. Timing of monoclonal antibody for seasonal RSV prophylaxis in the United Kingdom. Epidemiol Infect 2007; 135(1): 159-62.

Handforth J, Sharland M, Friedland JS. Prevention of respiratory syncytial virus infection in infants. BMJ 2004; 328: 1026-7

Zambon MC. Active and passive immunisation against respiratory syncytial virus. Rev Med Virol 1999; 9: 227-36.

Epidemiology

Zambon MC. Influenza and respiratory syncytial virus. Medicine: 29: 118-22.

Zambon MC, Stockton JD, Clewley JP, Fleming DM. Influenza or RSV? Community cases of influenza like illness. Lancet 2001; 358 1410-6.

Zambon MC, Stockton JD, Clewley JP, Fleming DM. Contribution of influenza and respiratory syncytial virus to community cases of influenza-like illness: an observational study. Lancet 2001; 358: 1410-6.

Muller-Pebody B, Edmunds WJ, Zambon MC, Gay NJ, Crowcroft NS. Contribution of RSV to bronchiolitis and pneumaonia-associated hospitalisations in English children, April 1995-March 1998. Epidemiol Infect 2002; 129, 99-106.

Crowcroft NS, Cutts F, Zambon MC. Respiratory Syncytial virus: An underestimated cause of respiratory infection, with prospects for a vaccine. Commun Dis Public Health 1999; 2: 234-41.

Zambon M. Update on respiratory syncytial virus vaccination and immunoprophylaxis. Current Medical Literature, Virology 1996; 5: 99-107.

Last reviewed: 14 August 2008