id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-315934-h70j2jmt Yu, Jianxing Respiratory Syncytial Virus Seasonality, Beijing, China, 2007–2015 2019-06-17 .txt text/plain 3994 216 52 During July 2007–June 2015, we enrolled 4,225 hospitalized children with pneumonia in a study to determine the seasonality of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection in Beijing, China. R espiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a major cause of lower respiratory tract infection in young children worldwide (1-3); 2.7-3.8 million hospitalizations and 94,600-149,400 deaths occur each year among children <5 years of age as a result of RSV infection (4) . Several previous studies reported an RSV prevalence of 17%-33% among children with severe acute respiratory illness (15, 16) , but few have assessed the seasonality or trends of RSV infections in China. A sharp decrease in sample number and samples positive for RSV were observed each year during this event, resulting in a bimodal distribution curve ( Figure 1, During the study, 335 (8%) hospitalized children with pneumonia were admitted into the PICU, and 8 died (median age 1.4 years, range 4 months-13 years). ./cache/cord-315934-h70j2jmt.txt ./txt/cord-315934-h70j2jmt.txt