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. 2021 Jul 26;193(29):E1140-E1141.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.210919.

Potential resurgence of respiratory syncytial virus in Canada

Pascal M Lavoie  1 , Frederic Reicherz  2 , Alfonso Solimano  2 , Joanne M Langley  2
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Potential resurgence of respiratory syncytial virus in Canada

Pascal M Lavoie et al. CMAJ. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: Pascal Lavoie and Alfonso Solimano serve on the Executive Committee, and Alfonso Solimano is the Medical Director, of the British Columbia Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Immunoprophylaxis Program, a publicly funded program under the British Columbia Ministry of Health’s Provincial Health Services Authority. Joanne Langley’s study site has done research studies on RSV vaccines with GSK, Janssen and Pfizer. Funding for these studies is paid to Dalhousie University. No other competing interests were declared.

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