Risk factors for disease severity and increased medical resource utilization in respiratory syncytial virus (+) hospitalized children: A descriptive study conducted in four Belgian hospitals

• Marijke Proesmans,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Annabel Rector,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation KU Leuven Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Rega Institute, Laboratory of Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, Leuven, Belgium

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• Els Keyaerts,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation KU Leuven Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Rega Institute, Laboratory of Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, Leuven, Belgium

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• Yannick Vandendijck,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Janssen Pharmaceutica, Beerse, Belgium

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• Francois Vermeulen,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Kate Sauer,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, AZ Sint-Jan Brugge—Oostende, Campus Brugge, Brugge, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4523-7832

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• Marijke Reynders,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, AZ Sint-Jan Brugge—Oostende, Campus Brugge, Brugge, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2079-1279

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• Ann Verschelde,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, AZ Sint-Jan Brugge–Oostende, Campus Henri Serruys, Oostende, Belgium

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• Wim Laffut,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Heilig-Hartziekenhuis, Lier, Belgium

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• Kristien Garmyn,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Heilig-Hartziekenhuis, Lier, Belgium

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• Roman Fleischhackl,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Janssen-Cilag Austria, Vienna, Austria

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• Jacques Bollekens,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Janssen Pharmaceutica, Beerse, Belgium

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• Gabriela Ispas

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gispas@its.jnj.com

  Affiliation Janssen Pharmaceutica, Beerse, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2720-8157

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