Addendum to Proposal for Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus Nomenclature below the Species Level

Dual infections may also be more frequently identified when subtype-specific PCR is introduced, as they have been in phase 2 of the World Health Organization RSV program (5,6). Ian G. BarrComments to Author , Thomas C. Williams, Vahid Salimi, and Ursula J. Buchholz Author affiliations: WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, VIDRL, Doherty Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (I.G. Barr); University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (T.C. Williams); Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran (V. Salimi); National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Maryland, USA (U. Buchholz) Salimi V, Viegas M, Trento A, Agoti CN, Anderson LJ, Avadhanula V, et al. Google Scholar Ian G. Barr , Thomas C. Williams, Vahid Salimi, and Ursula J. Buchholz WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, VIDRL, Doherty Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (I.G. Barr); University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (T.C. Williams); Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran (V. Salimi); National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Maryland, USA (U. Buchholz)