TY - JOUR
T1 - Clinical features of children hospitalized with influenza A and B infections during the 2012-2013 influenza season in Italy
AU - Mancinelli, Livia
AU - Onori, Manuela
AU - Concato, Carlo
AU - Sorge, Roberto
AU - Chiavelli, Stefano
AU - Coltella, Luana
AU - Raucci, Umberto
AU - Reale, Antonio
AU - Menichella, D.
AU - Russo, Cristina
PY - 2016/1/8
Y1 - 2016/1/8
N2 - Background: Influenza is a major public health issue worldwide. It is characterized by episodes of infection that involve hundreds of millions of people each year. Since that in the seasons 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 the circulation of FLUB was decreasing we evaluated the clinical presentation, demographic characteristics, admitting department, and length of stay in children who contracted influenza admitted to Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, during the 2012-2013 influenza season, with the aim to establish if the recover of FLUB was associated to a clinical worsening, in comparison with those due to FLUA. Methods: A total of 133 respiratory specimens, collected from patients with symptoms of respiratory tract infections, positive for the Influenza A and B viruses (FLUA and B) were subtyped. Comparisons between the FLUA and FLUB groups were performed with the one-way ANOVA for continuous parametric variables, the Mann-Whitney test for non-parametric variables, or the Chi-Square test or Fisher's exact test (if cells
AB - Background: Influenza is a major public health issue worldwide. It is characterized by episodes of infection that involve hundreds of millions of people each year. Since that in the seasons 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 the circulation of FLUB was decreasing we evaluated the clinical presentation, demographic characteristics, admitting department, and length of stay in children who contracted influenza admitted to Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, during the 2012-2013 influenza season, with the aim to establish if the recover of FLUB was associated to a clinical worsening, in comparison with those due to FLUA. Methods: A total of 133 respiratory specimens, collected from patients with symptoms of respiratory tract infections, positive for the Influenza A and B viruses (FLUA and B) were subtyped. Comparisons between the FLUA and FLUB groups were performed with the one-way ANOVA for continuous parametric variables, the Mann-Whitney test for non-parametric variables, or the Chi-Square test or Fisher's exact test (if cells
KW - Children
KW - Clinical features
KW - Hospitalization
KW - Influenza viruses
KW - Viral subtypes
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U2 - 10.1186/s12879-015-1333-x
DO - 10.1186/s12879-015-1333-x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84953292811
SN - 1471-2334
VL - 16
JO - BMC Infectious Diseases
JF - BMC Infectious Diseases
IS - 1
M1 - 6
ER -