Clinical features, risk factors, and complications among pediatric patients with pandemic influenza A (H1N1)

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 777-781

  Plessa, Eleni ^a,b   Diakakis, Panagiotis ^b   Gardelis, John ^b   Thirios, Athanasios ^a,b   Koletsi, Patra ^a   Falagas, Matthew E ^a,c,d  

^a ALFA INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AIBS   (Greece)

^b General Hospital of Zakynthos   (Greece)

^c HENRY DUNANT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

children; H1N1; influenza A; pandemic

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; OSELTAMIVIR;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRONCHITIS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COUGHING; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OBESITY; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; PNEUMONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHINORRHEA; RISK FACTOR; SORE THROAT; SYMPTOM; THROAT CULTURE;

ASTHMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FEVER; GREECE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; OBESITY; OROPHARYNX; PANDEMICS; PATIENTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77955102186     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0009922810368558     Document Type: Article

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