Report of two cases of influenza virus A/H1N1v and B co-infection during the 2010/2011 epidemics in the Italian Veneto Region

Virology Journal

Volumn 8, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Calistri, Arianna ^a,b   Salata, Cristiano ^a,b   Cosentino, Marina ^a,b   Asnicar, Samuele ^b   Franchin, Elisa ^a,b   Cusinato, Riccardo ^b   Pacenti, Monia ^b   Donatelli, Isabella ^c   Palù, Giorgio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

co infections; diagnostics; dual infections; influenza; surveillance

Indexed keywords

OSELTAMIVIR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL STRAIN; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION TEST; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INFANT; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); INFLUENZA B; INOCULATION; ITALY; MIXED INFECTION; NOSE SMEAR; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEASONAL INFLUENZA; THROAT CULTURE; VIRUS STRAIN; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; DOG; GENETICS; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; INFLUENZA VIRUS B; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNX; TRANSPLANTATION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS CULTURE;

CERCOPITHECINE HERPESVIRUS 1; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; COINFECTION; DOGS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; INFANT; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA B VIRUS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNX; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSPLANTATION; VIRUS CULTIVATION;

EID: 80155201146     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1743422X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-422X-8-502     Document Type: Article

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