Respiratory Syncytial Virus Hospitalization During Pregnancy in 4 High-income Countries, 2010-2016

Annette K Regan; Nicola P Klein; Gayle Langley; Steven J Drews; Sarah Buchan; Sarah Ball; Jeffrey C Kwong; Allison Naleway; Mark Thompson; Brandy E Wyant; Avram Levy; Hannah Chung; Becca Feldman; Mark A Katz; PREVENT Group

doi:10.1093/cid/ciy439

Respiratory Syncytial Virus Hospitalization During Pregnancy in 4 High-income Countries, 2010-2016

Clin Infect Dis. 2018 Nov 28;67(12):1915-1918. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciy439.

Authors

Annette K Regan^{1

2}, Nicola P Klein³, Gayle Langley⁴, Steven J Drews^{5

6}, Sarah Buchan^{7

8

9}, Sarah Ball¹⁰, Jeffrey C Kwong^{7

8

9

11

12}, Allison Naleway¹³, Mark Thompson⁴, Brandy E Wyant¹⁰, Avram Levy^{14

15}, Hannah Chung⁷, Becca Feldman¹⁶, Mark A Katz^{16

17

18}; PREVENT Group

Collaborators

PREVENT Group:
Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner, Pat Shifflet, Rebecca V Fink, Deshayne Fell, Dan Riesel, Michal Mandelboim, Paul Effler, Ned Lewis, Jonathan Gubbay, Timothy Karnauchow, Dayre McNally, Kevin Katz, Marek Smieja, Allison McGeer, Andrew Simor, David Richardso, Aharona G Glatman-Freedman

Affiliations

¹ School of Public Health, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
² Wesfarmers Centre of Infectious Diseases and Vaccines, Telethon Kids Institute, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
³ Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland.
⁴ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases, Atlanta, Georgia.
⁵ Diagnostic Virology, ProvLab Alberta, Alberta Health Services, Edmonton.
⁶ Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton.
⁷ Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁸ Public Health Ontario, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁹ Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
¹⁰ Abt Associates, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
¹¹ Department of Family & Community Medicine, University of Toronto.
¹² University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
¹³ Kaiser Permanente North West, Portland, Oregon.
¹⁴ PathWest Laboratory Medicine WA, Department of Health Western Australia.
¹⁵ Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
¹⁶ Clalit Research Institute, Chief Physician's Office, Clalit Health Services, Tel Aviv.
¹⁷ School of Public Health, Medical School for International Health, Ben Gurion University, Bersheva, Israel.
¹⁸ University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor.

Abstract

Few studies have addressed respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection during pregnancy. Among 846 pregnant women hospitalized with respiratory illness and tested for RSV, 21 (2%) were RSV positive, of whom 8 (38%) were diagnosed with pneumonia. Despite study limitations, these data can help inform decisions about RSV prevention strategies.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Adult
Australia / epidemiology
Canada / epidemiology
Developed Countries*
Female
Hospitalization*
Humans
Income
Israel / epidemiology
Pneumonia / virology
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Complications / virology*
Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections / epidemiology*
Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Human / isolation & purification
Respiratory Tract Infections / epidemiology
Respiratory Tract Infections / virology*
United States / epidemiology
Young Adult

Grants and funding

CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHS/United States