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Clinical features and contagiousness of influenza A(H1N1) in health care workers and hospitalized patients in a Mexico city hospital

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Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin. 2011 Jul 26. [Epub ahead of print]
[Clinical features and contagiousness of influenza A(H1N1) in health care workers and hospitalized patients in a Mexico city hospital.]
[Article in Spanish]
Angeles-Garay U, Gayosso Rivera JA, Zacate-Palacios Y, Rechy-Luna M, Terrazas Estrada JJ, Arias-Flores R.
Source

Divisi?n de Epidemiolog?a Hospitalaria, Hospital de Especialidades del Centro M?dico ?La Raza? (HECMR), M?xico DF, M?xico.
Abstract
INTRODUCTION:

Respiratory infections increased in Mexico in 2009 due to an epidemic of influenza.
METHODS:

To compare symptoms and infectivity of influenza A(H1N1) and seasonal influenza we evaluated epidemiological data and microbiological sampling of health workers (HW) and patients who probably had influenza.
RESULTS:

From April to November 2009 we studied 83 HW (29 with influenza A(H1N1) and 8 with seasonal influenza) and 71 patients (26 and 11, respectively). The subtypes of influenza had similar clinical data.
CONCLUSIONS:

Fifteen patients with immunosuppression or chronic diseases developed fatal pneumonia; the infectivity was greater for influenza A(H1N1).

Copyright ? 2010 Elsevier Espa?a, S.L. All rights reserved.

PMID:
21798632
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21798632
 
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