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Severe Respiratory Disease Concurrent with the Circulation of H1N1 Influenza
Author(s) -
Gerardo Chowell,
Stefano Bertozzi,
M. Arantxa Colchero,
Hugo LópezGatell,
Celia AlpucheAranda,
Mauricio Hernández,
Mark A. Miller
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa0904023
Subject(s) - medicine , pneumonia , pandemic , epidemiology , human mortality from h5n1 , outbreak , population , virus , disease , pediatrics , mortality rate , viral pneumonia , virology , environmental health , infectious disease (medical specialty) , covid-19
In the spring of 2009, an outbreak of severe pneumonia was reported in conjunction with the concurrent isolation of a novel swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) virus (S-OIV), widely known as swine flu, in Mexico. Influenza A (H1N1) subtype viruses have rarely predominated since the 1957 pandemic. The analysis of epidemic pneumonia in the absence of routine diagnostic tests can provide information about risk factors for severe disease from this virus and prospects for its control.

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