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Article: A predictive model for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) hospitalisation of premature infants born at 33-35 weeks of gestational age, based on data from the Spanish FLIP study.(Research)(Clinical report)
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- Respiratory Research
- Article date:
- December 8, 2008
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Authors: Eric AF Sim
ões (corresponding author) [1]; Xavier Carbonell-Estrany [2]; John R Fullarton [3]; Johannes G Liese [4]; Jose Figueras-Aloy [5]; Gunther Doering [6]; Juana Guzman [7]
Background
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) causes a severe lower respiratory tract disease that results in substantial morbidity in premature infants [1, 2]. Infants born up to 35 weeks' gestational age (wGA) lack the necessary pulmonary and immunologic development and function essential to combating infection [3, 4, 5]. It is estimated that 1-3% of previously healthy infants are hospitalised because of RSV infection [6], whereas the ...
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