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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Sun Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3564118 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Viruses 20130116 1
Human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the main viral cause of respiratory tract infection in infants as well as some elderly and high-risk adults with chronic pulmonary disease and the severely immunocompromised. So far, no specific anti-RSV therapeutics or effective anti-RSV vaccines have been reported. Only one humanized monoclonal antibody, Palivizumab, has been approved for use in high-risk infants to prevent RSV infection. Ribavirin is the only drug licensed for therapy of RSV infectio ...[more]