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Respiratory syncytial virus infectious disease: What Patients Should Know

By Dr. Alejandro Fischer, MD · · Infectious Disease

Patients often ask us about respiratory syncytial virus infectious disease. Here is what our Infectious Disease clinicians want you to know.

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Topic: respiratory syncytial virus infectious disease. A viral infectious disease that results_in infection located_in upper respiratory tract or located_in lower respiratory tract, has_material_basis_in Human respiratory syncytial virus (Orthopneumovirus hominis), which is transmitted_by droplet spread of nasal secretions from an infected person while coughing or sneezing, or transmitted_by contaminated fomites. The infection has_symptom runny…

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