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Epidemiology of parainfluenza virus type 3 in England and Wales over a ten-year period

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

A. J. Easton  and
R. P. Eglin
A. J. Easton
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
R. P. Eglin
Affiliation:
Department of Virology, Public health Laboratory, John Radcliffe hospital, Oxford 0X3 9DU, UK
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We have analysed data on respiratory syneytial (RS) and parainfiuenza type 3 (PF3) viruses reported to the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre. London, over the period 1978–87. These confirm the annual winter epidemic of RS virus and show that, in England and Wales, PF3 is a summer infection with regular yearly epidemics.

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Special Article
Information
Epidemiology & Infection , Volume 102 , Issue 3 , June 1989 , pp. 531 - 535
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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