Abstract
Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus (hRSV) is the major causative agent of lower respiratory tract infections in children and immunocompromised patients. Belonging to the Pneumoviridae family, RSV is an enveloped virus with a helical nucleocapsid. Its genome consists of a negative single stranded on-segmented RNA, composed of approximately 15,200 nucleotides and 10 genes, which encode 11 pr…