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. 2022 Aug 12;40(37):5537. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.08.003

Corrigendum to “Natural history and epidemiology of respiratory syncytial virus infection in the Middle East: Hospital surveillance for children under age two in Jordan” [Vaccine 33(47) (2015) 6479–6487]

Natasha Halasa a,c,, John Williams f, Samir Faouri d, Asem Shehabi e, Sten H Vermund a,c, Li Wang b, Christopher Fonnesbeck b, Najwa Khuri-Bulos e,
PMCID: PMC9371790  PMID: 35965242

The authors regret that the age group distributions in Table 2 and Table 3 are inaccurate. The revised, accurate distributions are presented below. The results presented for the overall cohort in-text (Section 3.2) are accurate .

Table 2.

Clinical and demographic comparisons of RSV-positive and RSV-negative children.

Total (N = 3168) RSV-positive (N = 1397) RSV-negative (N = 1771) p-Value
0–1 months 415 (30%) 579 (33%) <0.01
2–5 months 543 (39%) 519 (29%)
6–11 months 275 (20%) 353 (20%)
12–23 months 164 (12%) 320 (18%)

Table 3.

Clinical and demographic comparisons of lower respiratory tract infection by RSV-positive, other virus-positive, and virus-negative children.

Total (N = 2263) RSV-positive LRTI (N = 1210) Virus other-positive LRTI (N = 785) Virus-negative LRTI (N = 268) p-Value
0–1 months 289 (24%) 87 (11%) 51 (19%) <0.01
2–5 months 493 (41%) 246 (31%) 81 (30%)
6–11 months 269 (22%) 242 (31%) 70 (26%)
12–23 months 159 (13%) 210 (27%) 66 (25%)

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