Natural Reinfection of Adults by Respiratory Syncytial Virus

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Abstract
RESPIRATORY syncytial virus has been shown to be responsible for a significant amount of acute respiratory disease during infancy and childhood.1 2 3 This virus was linked particularly with cases of pneumonia and bronchiolitis occurring among children less than two years of age. In one study outbreaks of infection were recorded during each of three successive years.4 Serologic studies indicate that infection is extremely common in early life, since 60 to 80 per cent of persons tested possessed neutralizing antibodies against the virus by four years of age.5 At present there is little information concerning infection among adults. Hamre et al.6 and . . .

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