In 2009, Alnylam formed alliances with Cubist Pharmaceuticals and Kyowa Hakko Kirin to market a drug developed to treat the respiratory syncytial virus.
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Parents also read about how illnesses such as respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, puts 90, 000 young children in hospitals nationwide each year.
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Experiments are under way in using nose sprays to deliver vaccines against parainfluenza and respiratory syncytial viruses, both major causes of pneumonia in children.
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Compared with respiratory syncytial virus, infection with human metapneumovirus tends to occur in slightly older children and to produce disease that is less severe.
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RespiGam is used to treat respiratory syncytial virus, which kills more than 4, 500 US children every year and hospitalizes more than 91, 000.
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O'Brien's work domestically and internationally has focused on epidemiologic and vaccine studies of pneumococcal disease; rotavirus; Haemophilus influenzae; respiratory syncytial virus; influenza; and Helicobacter pylori.
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Today, Aviron also is researching vaccines for illnesses caused by Epstein-Barr virus, cytomegalovirus, herpes simplex virus type 2, and respiratory syncytial virus, among other research.
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Medimmune claims its clinical studies with 510 infants in the United States showed that hospitalization due to respiratory syncytial virus was reduced by 41 percent.
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Rhinoviruses are the most common cause of the common cold; other viruses such as respiratory syncytial virus, parainfluenza virus and adenoviruses can cause them too.
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The children were also tested for Human respiratory syncytial virus ( RSV ), human metapneumovirus and HCoV-NH by Real-time polymerase chain reaction ( RT-PCR ).