Characteristics of pregnant Japanese women who required hospitalization for treatment of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 - low mortality rate may be due to early antiviral use

Journal of Infection

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 232-233

  Nakai, Akihito ^a   Minakami, Hisanori ^b   Unno, Nobuya ^c   Saito, Shigeru ^d   Morikawa, Mamoru ^b   Yoshimura, Yasunori ^e   Terao, Toshihiko ^f  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^e KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f Japan Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE; OSELTAMIVIR; ZANAMIVIR;

2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA; ABORTION; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; JAPANESE; LETTER; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MULTIPARA; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; JAPAN; PNEUMONIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79952186688     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2011.01.002     Document Type: Letter

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