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Rate of Seasonal Spread of Respiratory Syncytial Virus in a Pediatric Hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Mary-Louise McLaws ,
Cathryn Murphy ,
Peter Taylor ,
Mark Ferson ,
Julian Gold ,
Robyn Donnellan  and
Dianne Dalton
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Abstract

The rate of nosocomial respiratory syncytial virus infection was measured in a large pediatric hospital using an incidence density method. The at-risk days for nosocomial RSV were summed during a defined winter period in which there were 54 admissions with community-acquired RSV infection giving a rate of 2.9 cases per 1,000 at-risk days (95% confidence interval, 0.3-5.4 per 1,000).

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 18 , Issue 11 , November 1997 , pp. 778 - 780
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1997

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