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A single-season epidemic with respiratory syncytial virus subgroup B2 during 10 epidemic years, 1978 to 1988.

Marshall University School of Medicine, Huntington, West Virginia 25071.

ABSTRACT

Respiratory syncytial virus strains isolated from infants and children hospitalized with acute respiratory tract disease in Huntington, W. Va., from July 1979 through June 1988 were categorized by subgroup by using two panels of monoclonal antibodies specific for subgroup A and subgroup B. Of 405 strains tested, 319 (78.8%) were subgroup A, 73 (18.0%) were subgroup B1, and 13 (3.2%) were subgroup B2. The subgroup B2 strains occurred as a single-season epidemic during the epidemiologic year July 1980 to June 1981, except for one strain isolated in the epidemiologic year 1978 to 1979. Subgroup B strains were associated with significantly fewer bronchiolitis illnesses than subgroup A strains. The severity of illnesses caused by subgroup B1 and B2 strains was the same.

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