DISRUPTION OF EPIDEMIC PATTERNS IN COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS POST-COVID-19 IN FRANCE: A 5-YEAR ANALYSIS USING THE FRENCH PEDIATRIC AND AMBULATORY RESEARCH OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES NETWORK
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- DOI: 10.1097/INF.0000000000005033
DISRUPTION OF EPIDEMIC PATTERNS IN COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS POST-COVID-19 IN FRANCE: A 5-YEAR ANALYSIS USING THE FRENCH PEDIATRIC AND AMBULATORY RESEARCH OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES NETWORK
Abstract
After the lifting of the nonpharmaceutical interventions introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic. Enterovirus reappeared 16 months after COVID-19 onset; bronchiolitis, 33 months; group A Streptococcus infections, 36 months; pneumonia, 45 months and pertussis, 51 months. These differences across pathogens shed light on differences in herd immunity durability and pathogen-specific vulnerability.
Keywords: COVID-19; children; community-acquired respiratory infections; immunity debt.
Copyright © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.
Conflict of interest statement
C.L. reports personal fees and nonfinancial support from Pfizer and personal fees from MSD outside the submitted work. R.C. reports personal fees and nonfinancial support from Pfizer and personal fees from GSK, Merck, Pfizer and Sanofi outside the submitted work. N.O. reports travel grants from Pfizer, Sanofi and GSK, outside the submitted work. F.V.L.S. reported personal fees from MSD Vaccins and GSK outside the submitted work. N.G. received nonfinancial support from Pfizer outside the submitted work. A.W. reported personal fees from MSD Vaccins, Sanofi Aventis, ALK-Abello, GSK, Pierre Fabre, Shire, Novartis and Pfizer outside the submitted work. Other authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
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