Public hospital-based laboratory experience during an outbreak of pandemic influenza a (H1N1) virus infections

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1189-1194

  Leonardi, Gary P ^a   Mitrache, Ileana ^a   Pigal, Ana ^a   Freedman, Lester ^a  

^a NASSAU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEVER; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL LABORATORY; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INFANT; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H3N2; INFLUENZA VIRUS B; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYALGIA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NONHUMAN; PANDEMIC; PATIENT CARE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPRING; UNITED STATES; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS CULTIVATION; YOUNG ADULT;

CERCOPITHECINE HERPESVIRUS 1; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

EID: 77950467307     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01657-09     Document Type: Article

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