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Editor, Senior Moderator
J Trop Pediatr. 2011 Feb 25. [Epub ahead of print]
Clinical Features and Outcome of Children and Adolescents Hospitalized with Influenza A (H1N1) Virus Infection Compared with Flu-Like Symptoms and Negative Rapid Tests for Influenza A (H1N1) Admitted in the Same Period of Time.
Tresoldi AT, Pereira RM, Fraga AM, Romaneli MT, Omae CC, Baracat EC, Reis MC, Miranda ML.
Pediatric Department and State Hospital of Sumar?, Faculty of Medical Science, Clinical Hospital, State University of Campinas, S?o Paulo, Brazil.
Abstract
This report describes the clinical features and outcome of 61 pediatric hospitalized patients with influenza-like infection. Fever, cough and respiratory distress were the most common symptoms of the infection. Fifteen patients presented positive RT-PCR results for influenza A (H1N1). The group with positive results was compared with the negative one. The main significant difference was antibiotic usage and the need of mechanical ventilation in the patients with H1N1-virus infection. Among the 11 patients who required intensive care due to respiratory failure, 3 from the positive group died and none from the negative group.
PMID: 21355043 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21355043
Clinical Features and Outcome of Children and Adolescents Hospitalized with Influenza A (H1N1) Virus Infection Compared with Flu-Like Symptoms and Negative Rapid Tests for Influenza A (H1N1) Admitted in the Same Period of Time.
Tresoldi AT, Pereira RM, Fraga AM, Romaneli MT, Omae CC, Baracat EC, Reis MC, Miranda ML.
Pediatric Department and State Hospital of Sumar?, Faculty of Medical Science, Clinical Hospital, State University of Campinas, S?o Paulo, Brazil.
Abstract
This report describes the clinical features and outcome of 61 pediatric hospitalized patients with influenza-like infection. Fever, cough and respiratory distress were the most common symptoms of the infection. Fifteen patients presented positive RT-PCR results for influenza A (H1N1). The group with positive results was compared with the negative one. The main significant difference was antibiotic usage and the need of mechanical ventilation in the patients with H1N1-virus infection. Among the 11 patients who required intensive care due to respiratory failure, 3 from the positive group died and none from the negative group.
PMID: 21355043 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21355043