Impact of COVID‐19 on Respiratory Virus Infections in Children, Japan, 2018–2023
The decrease in influenza infections following the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 may have contributed to the previously reported increase in rhinovirus infections. The rhinovirus outbreak, rather than SARS-CoV-2, may have contributed to the decrease in enveloped virus infections (RSV, parainfluenza viruses, metapneumovirus, and coronavirus 229E, HKU1, NL63, and OC43), possibly due to negative virus-virus interactions.
Authors
- Kayo Watanabe
- Hideka Miura
- Hiroko Morita
- Shuzo Usuku
- Makoto Kumazaki
- Yoko Matsuzaki (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2757-5886)
- Emi Takashita (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9064-4699)
- Tomoko Momoki
- Miwako Saikusa
- Ichiro Okubo
- Mina Nakauchi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6545-7448)
- Yoshihiro Kawaoka (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5061-8296)
- Hideki Hasegawa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6558-2297)
- Shiho Nagata
- Hiroki Ozawa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3239-1964)
- Seiichiro Fujisaki (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6129-8950)
- Shinji Watanabe
- Nobuko Tanaka
- Chiharu Kawakami
- Ryuichi Senda
- Kohei Shimizu
Institutions
- Yamagata University (JP)
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- Tokyo Medical University (JP)
- National Institute of Infectious Diseases (JP)
- National Center for Global Health and Medicine (JP)
- Kanagawa Prefectural Institute of Public Health (JP)
- National Influenza Center (MN)
- The University of Tokyo (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Immunity Inflammation and Disease
- Published
- 2025-03-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/iid3.70176
- Citations
- 5
- Primary Topic
- Respiratory viral infections research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 6.77
Funders
- Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare