Replication Data for: Molecular Evolutionary Dynamics of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Group A in Recurrent Epidemics in Coastal Kenya

The data is from an on-going study aimed at understanding the epidemiology and disease burden of RSV-associated pneumonia cases in Kilifi. This report details the evolutionary dynamics of RSV-A genotype in Kilifi. Respiratory swab samples (combined nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal) were collected from January 2000 to December 2012 from: (i) LRTI cases for children <5 years admitted to Kilifi County Hospital (KCH) collected over the period from 2000 to 2012 (3, 24), (ii) KCH outpatient presentations for children <5 years with acute respiratory infection (ARI) from April to August 2002 (25, 26), and (iii) the Kilifi RSV birth cohort (KBC) ARI cases identified between January 2002 to August 2003. The samples were screened for RSV and G-gene sequenced (RSV positives) using the Sanger method. Also included is a global RSV-A contemporenous comparison sequence dataset used in the analyses.