Advancing Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) prevention in Latin America: updated recommendations from the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society of Latin America (SLIPE) expert group on RSV prevention
1 Pediatric Infectious Diseases Division, Hospital Nacional de Niños 'Dr. Carlos Sáenz Herrera', Centro de Ciencias Médicas, Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS), San José, Costa Rica.
2 Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis (CIDMA), Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
4 Pediatrics and Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud del Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
5 Department of Children's Health, Chair of the Polio Eradication Certification Committee, Metropolitan University of Santos (UNIMES) and Ministry of Health of Brazil, Brazil.
6 Department of Pediatrics, Universidad El Bosque, Cafettor Médica SAS, Bogotá, Colombia.
7 Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital Nacional de Niños Benjamin Bloom, El Salvador.
8 Pediatric Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital Universitario Jose E. Gonzalez, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico.
9 Pediatrics and Director of Pediatric Infectious Diseases Center, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia.
10 Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Department, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, Centro Hospitalario Pereira Rossell, Uruguay.
11 Department of Pediatrics and Children Surgery, Universidad de Chile. Santiago, Chile.
12 Pediatrics, Head of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Department, and Director in Clinical Research, Hospital del Niño Dr. José Renán Esquivel; Cevaxin y Senacyt (SNI), Panama City, Panama.
13 Head of the Epidemiology Department, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Keywords:
Latin America; Maternal vaccination; Monoclonal antibodies; National Immunization Technical Advisory Groups (NITAGs); Public health recommendations; Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV).