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Editor, Senior Moderator
Nippon Rinsho. 2010 Sep;68(9):1656-8.
[Clinical features, treatments and preventions for newborns with pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009]
[Article in Japanese]
Morioka I, Arakawa S, Matsuo M.
Division of Infection Control and Prevention, Kobe University Hospital.
Abstract
Newborns should be considered to be at high risk of developing complications of novel influenza like pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009, because maternal antibodies are not transferred via crossing the placenta. In Japan, some newborns with pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009 appeared non-specific symptoms, such as fever, poor activity and sucking, and apnea. A Japanese newborn infected with pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009 combined with S. pneumoniae, developed severe pneumonia by which a mechanical ventilation was initiated. Orally oseltamivir(3-4 mg/kg/dose twice a day for 5 days) was used for treatments of flu-infected newborns. Contact and droplet precautions were very important measures to prevent transmission of pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009 virus to newborns.
PMID: 20845743 [PubMed - in process]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20845743
[Clinical features, treatments and preventions for newborns with pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009]
[Article in Japanese]
Morioka I, Arakawa S, Matsuo M.
Division of Infection Control and Prevention, Kobe University Hospital.
Abstract
Newborns should be considered to be at high risk of developing complications of novel influenza like pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009, because maternal antibodies are not transferred via crossing the placenta. In Japan, some newborns with pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009 appeared non-specific symptoms, such as fever, poor activity and sucking, and apnea. A Japanese newborn infected with pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009 combined with S. pneumoniae, developed severe pneumonia by which a mechanical ventilation was initiated. Orally oseltamivir(3-4 mg/kg/dose twice a day for 5 days) was used for treatments of flu-infected newborns. Contact and droplet precautions were very important measures to prevent transmission of pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009 virus to newborns.
PMID: 20845743 [PubMed - in process]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20845743