Abstract
Respiratory Syncytial Virus(RSV) causes acute respiratory tract infections in young infancy such as bronchiolitis, pneumonia. RSV infections are uncommon in the first month of life. Clinical manifestations of neonatal RSV infection are respiratory symptoms, apnea and bacterial sepsis like illness such as lethargy, poor feeding, fever, rash. We report a case of neonatal pneumonia caused by RSV and accompanied by transient apnea and favorable clinical outcome.



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