Rates of hospital-acquired influenza due to the pandemic H1N1 virus in 2009, compared with seasonal influenza

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 198-200

  Rabagliati, Ricardo ^a   Labarca, Jaime ^a   Siri, Leonardo ^a   Perez, Carlos M ^a   Ferrés, Marcela ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMANTADINE;

ADULT; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA A; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H3N2; LETTER; MALE; PANDEMIC; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASONAL INFLUENZA;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHILE; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANDEMICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 78751678466     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/657913     Document Type: Letter

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