Update: Respiratory Virus Surveillance -- United States, 1984
Reports of noninfluenza respiratory virus isolations from
certain
state and university laboratories received by CDC through March 16,
1984, show that respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) identification
rates
peaked in December in the South Atlantic and East South Central
regions and in January in the West North Central, West South
Central,
and Pacific regions. The New England, Mid-Atlantic, East North
Central, and Mountain regions have had continued high RSV
identification rates through February. New England reported the
largest number of RSV identifications for February and March; 198
of
543 specimens tested were positive for RSV (Table 2).
Reported by LL Minnich, MS, CG Ray, MD, Arizona Health Science
Center,
Tucson; B Lauer, MD, M Levin, MD, University of Colorado Health
Sciences Center, Denver; C Brandt, PhD, HW Kim, MD, Children's
Hospital National Medical Center, District of Columbia; L Pierik, K
McIntosh, MD, The Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; T
O'Leary, TC Shope, MD, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann
Arbor; HH Balfour, MD, University of Minnesota Hospitals,
Minneapolis;
C Reed, GA Storch, MD, St. Louis Children's Hospital, St. Louis,
Missouri; ME Kumar, MD, Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital,
Cleveland, Ohio; P Swenson, PhD, North Shore University Hospital,
Manhasset, CB Hall, MD, University of Rochester Medical Center,
Rochester, New York; H Friedman, MD, S Plotkin, MD, The Children's
Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; M Kervina, MS, E Sannella,
MS,
PF Wright, MD, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville,
Tennessee; L Corey, MD, Children's Orthopedic Hospital, Seattle,
Washington; Respective State Virus Laboratory Directors; Div of
Viral
Diseases, Center for Infectious Diseases, CDC.
Editorial Note
Editorial Note: In general, outbreaks of RSV in the United States
last between 2 and 5 months. The number of RSV isolates was
declining
in February in five regions, suggesting that the RSV outbreak is
coming to an end in these regions 3 to 4 months after its onset.
For
the other four regions, the number of isolates was stable or
increasing in February.
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