Epidemiologic, clinical, laboratory, and therapeutic characteristics of influenza A/H1N1 in moslem bedouin and Jewish Children Hospitalized in Southern Israel during 2009

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 530-533

  Goldberg, Lior ^a   Greenberg, David ^a   Zelcer, Itay ^a   Slanovic, Leonel ^a   Shemer Avni, Yonat ^a   Nativ, Ronit ^a   Borer, Avraham ^a   Hodik, Gabriel ^a   Sherf, Michael ^a   Lifshitz, Matitiahu ^a   Leibovitz, Eugene ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

2009 influenza A H1N1; children; hospitalization; hypoxia; pneumonia

Indexed keywords

2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; ISRAEL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOSLEM; NEUTROPHILIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VOMITING; WHEEZING;

EID: 79957982005     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: 15320987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0b013e31821810ff     Document Type: Article

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