title: Epidemiology of parainfluenza virus type 3 in England and Wales over a ten-year period.
abstract: We have analysed data on respiratory syncytial (RS) and parainfluenza 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Easton
authors.forename: R P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Eglin
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D004739:England; D006801:Humans; D010224:Parainfluenza Virus 3, Human; D018184:Paramyxoviridae Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*; D010253:Respirovirus Infections / Q000453:epidemiology; D012621:Seasons; D013997:Time Factors; D014852:Wales