Clinicopathologic Study of Thirty-Three Fatal Cases of Asian Influenza

Autor:	Lester Adelson, Robert Oseasohn, Masaro Kaji
Rok vydání:	1959
Předmět:	Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Attack rate General Medicine medicine.disease medicine.disease_cause Poliomyelitis Haemophilus influenzae Pneumonia Asian People Respiratory failure Influenza Human Case fatality rate Immunology Pandemic medicine Humans business Pneumonitis
Zdroj:	New England Journal of Medicine. 260:509-518
ISSN:	1533-4406 0028-4793
DOI:	10.1056/nejm195903122601101
Popis:	THE 1957 pandemic of Asian influenza was associated with a high attack rate and excess pneumonia mortality1; influenza-associated deaths were most common at the extremes of life. Although case fatality rates were low, the course of some cases was fulminant2 3 4 5 and comparable with the rapidly lethal variety of influenza observed in the pandemic of 1918–206 and in several subsequent epidemics.7 Recent reports of deaths associated with Asian influenza2 3 4 5 , 8 9 10 11 12 describe explosive, rapidly progressive and unresponsive respiratory failure frequently associated with staphylococcal infection, primary influenzal pneumonitis, neurologic and cardiac involvement, the rare isolation of Haemophilus influenzae from the respiratory tract and . . .
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