Life threatening infections labelled swine flu

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 340, Issue 7738, 2010, Pages 115-

  Houlihan, Catherine F ^a   Patel, Sanjay ^a   Price, David A ^a   Valappil, Manoj ^b   Schwab, Uli ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACUTE MYELOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ALGORITHM; ANAMNESIS; BACTEREMIA; CAMPYLOBACTER ENTERITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTION RATE; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; KIDNEY FAILURE; LETTER; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PANCYTOPENIA; PARASITEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SEROPREVALENCE; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; THERAPY DELAY; UNITED KINGDOM; ADULT; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHILD; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EPIDEMIC;

ADULT; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHILD; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM;

EID: 74949143215     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c137     Document Type: Letter

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