Epidemiological Characteristics of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection Among Hospitalized Children With Acute Respiratory Tract Infections From 2014 to 2022 in a Hospital in Hubei Province, China: Longitudinal Surveillance Study

Xing-Wen Hu   ^{1 *} , MBBS ;   Yiguo Zhou   ^{2 *} , MSc ;   Song Yi   ^{3 *} , MBBS ;   Wan-Xue Zhang   ⁴ , MBBS ;   Xin-Rui Wang   ⁵ , BSc ;   Juan Du   ⁶ , MM ;   Qing-Bin Lu   ^{2, 4, 5, 6, 7} , MD

¹ Department of Clinical Laboratory, Maternal and Child Health Hospital of Hubei Province, Wuhan, China

² Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China

³ Department of Medical Genetic Center, Maternal and Child Health Hospital of Hubei Province, Wuhan, China

⁴ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China

⁵ Department of Laboratorial Science and Technology & Vaccine Research Center, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China

⁶ Global Center for Infectious Disease and Policy Research & Global Health and Infectious Diseases Group, Peking University, Beijing, China

⁷ Key Laboratory of Epidemiology of Major Diseases (Peking University), Ministry of Education, Beijing, China

*these authors contributed equally