Evaluating the next generation of RSV intervention strategies: a mathematical modelling study and cost-effectiveness analysis.

David HodgsonRichard PebodyJasmina Panovska-GriffithsMarc BaguelinKatherine E Atkins

Published in: BMC medicine (2020)

In a setting with seasonal RSV epidemiology, maternal protection conferred to newborns is also seasonal, an assumption not previously incorporated in transmission models of RSV. For a country with seasonal RSV dynamics like England, seasonal programmes rather than year-round intervention programmes are always optimal.

Keyphrases

respiratory syncytial virus
respiratory tract
randomized controlled trial
pregnant women
physical activity
birth weight
low birth weight
gestational age
preterm infants