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Archivos de Pediatría del Uruguay
On-line version ISSN 1688-1249
Abstract
ALDAO, JOHN; LATTOF, MóNICA; HERNANDEZ, CRISTINA and CUNA, ISABEL. Virus respiratorio sincitial en neonatología. Arch. Pediatr. Urug. [online]. 2005, vol.76, n.3, pp.239-242. ISSN 1688-1249.
Summary Acute respiratory infection is one of the main causes of morbility and mortality not only for the newborn, but also for the infants. It is one of authorities´ priorities to act in the prophylaxis in the third care level due to the important social and economical cost. The evolution of 22 newborn who received prophylaxis for syncytial respiratory virus with palivizumab (Sinagis®) is described.
Keywords : RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUSES; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE.