PP83 Inequities In Respiratory Syncytial Virus Burden Among Brazilian Infants: A Deprivation Analysis
Andressa Braga, Quenia Cristina Dias Morais, Bernardo Tura, Marcelo Correia, Marisa Santos · 2025
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Andressa Braga and four co-authors wrote a 2025 study on how a lung virus affects babies in Brazil in uneven ways. The virus, called RSV, is a top cause of severe lung illness in infants around the world. The team asked whether babies in poorer areas carry more of that burden.
The team built a model that mixed two standard forms and fed it data from birth and hospital records. Babies in the poorest fifth of areas had hospital rates 33 times those in the richest fifth. That gap also shifts the math on vaccine value, since preventing cases in poor areas saves more stays. The study gives health planners a clear case for aiming new RSV vaccines first at the babies at highest risk.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Andressa Braga, Quenia Cristina Dias Morais, Bernardo Tura, Marcelo Correia, Marisa Santos |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |