title: Climate change and the end of the respiratory syncytial virus season.
abstract: The seasons associated with laboratory isolation of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) (for 1981-2004) and RSV-related emergency department admissions (for 1990-2004) ended 3.1 and 2.5 weeks earlier, respectively, per 1 degrees C increase in annual central England temperature (P=.002 and .043, respectively). Climate change may be shortening the RSV season.
authors.affiliation: Academic Unit of Respiratory Medicine, University College London, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, United Kingdom. g.donaldson@medsch.ucl.ac.uk
authors.forename: Gavin Christopher
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Donaldson
mesh_terms: D004739:England / Q000453:epidemiology; D017752:Greenhouse Effect; D006801:Humans; D018357:Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012621:Seasons; D013696:Temperature