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Characteristics of severe RSV infection needing intensive care

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  1. Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 34/2, 8036, Graz, Austria

    Bernhard Resch

  2. Research Unit for Neonatal Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

    Bernhard Resch & Katharina Brunner

  3. Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

    Siegfried Rödl

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BR was responsible for the design of the study and writing of the manuscript.

KB collected all the data.

SR supervised data acquisition and edited the manuscript.

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The study was approved by the local ethics committee Nr. 28–282 ex 15/16.

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Communicated by Piet Leroy

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Resch, B., Brunner, K. & Rödl, S. Characteristics of severe RSV infection needing intensive care. Eur J Pediatr 177, 1407–1408 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00431-018-3168-0

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