Failure of routine diagnostic methods to detect influenza in hospitalized older adults

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 683-688

  Talbot, H Keipp ^a   Williams, John V ^a   Zhu, Yuwei ^a   Poehling, Katherine A ^a,b   Griffin, Marie R ^a   Edwards, Kathryn M ^a  

^a GERIATRIC RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CLINICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; GOLD STANDARD; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPTOM; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS LOAD; AGED; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EVALUATION STUDY; GENETICS; HOSPITALIZATION; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; INFLUENZA VIRUS B; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VIROLOGY;

VIRUS ANTIGEN;

AGED; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CELL LINE; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA B VIRUS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRUS CULTIVATION;

EID: 77953835844     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/653202     Document Type: Article

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