The impact of coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on bronchiolitis (lower respiratory tract infection) due to respiratory syncytial virus: A systematic review and meta-analysis

  1. Sasidharanpillai Sabeena
  2. Nagaraja Ravishankar
  3. Sudandiradas Robin
  4. SabithaSasidharan Pillai

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  1. Version published to 10.4103/ijph.ijph_1334_22
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    Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

    Table 1: Rigor

    Ethicsnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    2 Study Protocol: An electronic search of PubMed/MEDLINE, Scopus and Google Scholar was carried out for all the articles in English published between January 2020 and March 2022 regarding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on bronchiolitis or lower respiratory tract infection due to the respiratory syncytial virus using search terms such as “impact” AND “COVID-19” OR “SARS-CoV-2” AND “RSV” NOT “vaccines”.
    Google Scholar
    suggested: (Google Scholar, RRID:SCR_008878)
    The forest plots were constructed using metaprop package in STATA.
    STATA
    suggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)

    Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).

    Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
    Limitation: Before the COVID-19 pandemic, there was no routine testing of bronchiolitis samples for RSV from developing countries in South East Asia, Africa and Latin America. All the studies included in the meta-analysis were from Europe and China. Even though there were studies from other parts of the world reporting low RSV activity among infants during the COVID-19 pandemic, very few studies reported RSV positivity before the pandemic. During the coming seasons, health care professionals and hospitals must be prepared to manage the increasing number of symptomatic RSV cases. This review emphasises the importance of promoting RSV maternal vaccines and passive childhood immunisation with monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). Conclusion: There was an increase in RSV activity after relaxing stringent public health measures during the COVID-19 pandemic in the northern and southern hemispheres. Efforts for the diagnosis and surveillance for RSV must be reinforced along with influenza and SARS-CoV-2 viruses to minimise the burden of hospitalisation and mortality among infants.

    Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.

    Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.

    Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.

    Results from rtransparent:
    • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

    Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.

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