respiratory syncytial virus

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respiratory syncytial virus (countable and uncountable, plural respiratory syncytial viruses)

  1. (virology) Any virus in genus Pneumovirus causing respiratory tract infections.
    Synonym: (initialism) RSV
    • 2023 May 18, Christina Jewett, “F.D.A. Panel Recommends R.S.V. Vaccine to Protect Young Infants”, in The New York Times‎[1], archived from the original on 18 May 2023:
      The vaccine would be the first to protect babies from respiratory syncytial virus, or R.S.V., which is the reason many infants are admitted to children’s hospitals each year and kills several hundred under 5 each year.

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