Molecular epidemiology of human respiratory syncytial virus among children in Japan during three seasons and hospitalization risk of genotype ON1

• Akinobu Hibino,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Division of International Health (Public Health), Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan

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• Reiko Saito ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jasmine@med.niigata-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Division of International Health (Public Health), Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1554-8226

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• Kiyosu Taniguchi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Pediatrics, National Mie Hospital, Mie, Japan

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• Hassan Zaraket,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of International Health (Public Health), Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan, Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, Center for Infectious Disease Research, Faculty of Medicine American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Yugo Shobugawa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation

  Affiliation Division of International Health (Public Health), Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan

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• Tamano Matsui,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision

  Affiliation Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

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• Hiroshi Suzuki,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  Affiliation School of Nursing, Niigata Seiryo University, Niigata, Japan

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• for the Japanese HRSV Collaborative Study Group

  ¶The membership of Japanese HRSV Collaborative Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments

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