Is influenza an influenza-like illness? Clinical presentation of influenza in hospitalized patients

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 266-270

  Babcock, Hilary M ^a,b   Merz, Liana R ^a   Fraser, Victoria J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Campus Box 8051 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMANTADINE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIPYRETIC ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFEPIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CORTICOSTEROID; GLUCOCORTICOID; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OSELTAMIVIR; OXACILLIN; PARACETAMOL; RIMANTADINE; VANCOMYCIN; ZANAMIVIR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; COUGHING; FEMALE; FEVER; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; INFLUENZA VIRUS B; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PNEUMONIA; PSEUDOMONAS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SORE THROAT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA B VIRUS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33645575521     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/501539     Document Type: Article

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