RSV--still more questions than answers

Louis Bont1, Eugenio Baraldi, Brigitte Fauroux

  • 1From the *Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands; †Women's and Children's Health Department, Unit of Respiratory Medicine and Allergy, Padova, Italy; ‡Necker Pediatric University Hospital, Paris Descartes University, Paris, France; §Division of Asthma, Allergy and Lung Biology, King's College, London, United Kingdom; ¶Department of Paediatrics, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland; ‖S. Anna Hospital, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Torino, Italy; **Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago de Compostela, University of Santiago, La Coruña, Spain; ††Center for Population, Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Medical School, Midlothian, United Kingdom; ‡‡Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India; §§Manchester Children's Hospital, Manchester, United Kingdom; and ¶¶Pediatric Clinic, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

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