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 Influenza Viruses

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CDC recommends against the use of amantadine and rimantadine 2006

Webster RG. H5N1 Outbreaks and Enzootic Influenza. Emerg Infect Dis, Jan 2006.

Gram stain, 2008
Creanga AA, Johnson TF, et al. Severity of 2009 Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1) Virus Infection in Pregnant Women. Obstet Gynecol. 2010 Apr;115:717-26.
De Serres G, et al. Contagious Period for Pandemic (H1N1) 2009. Emerg Infect Dis. 2010 May;16:783-8.
Nguyen JT, Hoopes JD, et al. Triple Combination of Oseltamivir, Amantadine, and Ribavirin Displays Synergistic Activity Against Multiple Influenza Virus Strains in vitro. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2009 Oct;53(10):4115-26.

Cauchemez S, et al.  Household Transmission of 2009 Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1) Virus in the United States.  N Engl J Med 2009;361 (27):2619-2627.

Writing Committee of the WHO Consultation on Clinical Aspects of Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Influenza.  Clinical Aspects of Pandemic 2009 Influenza A (H1N1) Virus Infection.  New Engl J Med 2010;362:1708-1719.

Ang B, et al. Surgical masks for protection of health care personnel against pandemic novel swine-origin influenza A (H1N1)-2009: results from an observational study.  Clin Infect Dis 2010;

50 :1011-4.

Li CC, et al.  Correlation of Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Viral Load with Disease Severity and Prolonged Viral Shedding in Children.  Emerg Infect Dis 2010;16:1265-1272.

Kilbourne ED. Influenza Pandemics of 20th Century. Emerg Infect Dis, Jan 2006.

Taubenberger JK, Morens DM. 1918 Influenza: the Mother of All Pandemics. Emerg Infect Dis, Jan 2006.

Krause R. The Swine Flu Episode and the Fog of Epidemics. Emerg Infect Dis, Jan 2006.

Definition of influenza

Billings M, Schneider J. 2007.  The Influenza Pandemic of 1918.

Morens DM, Fauci AS.  The 1918 Influenza Pandemic: Insights for the 21st Century. Journal of Infectious Diseases, April 2007.

Rizzo C, et al. Pandemic Influenza and Pneumonia Due to Legionella pneumophila: A Frequently Underestimated Coinfection. Clin Infect Dis. 2010 Jul 1;51:115.

Graitcer SB, et al. Characteristics of Patients with Oseltamivir-Resistant Pandemic (H1N1) 2009, United States.  Emerg Infect Dis 2011;17:255-257.

Rosenberg CE.  Siting Epidemic Disease: 3 Centuries of American History. J Infect Dis 2008;197 (Suppl 1):S4-S6.

Schultz MG, Morens DM.  Charles-Jules-Henri Nicolle:  Contributions to Typhus and Influenza.  Emerging Infectious Diseases 2009;15(9):1520-1522.

Trilla A, et al. The 1918 "Spanish flu" in Spain. Clin Infect Dis. 2008 Sep 1;47:668-73.

Zimmer SM, et al.  Historical Perspective -- Emergence of Influenza A (H1N1) Viruses.  N Engl J Med 2009;361:279-285.

Morens DM, et al. The Persistent Legacy of the 1918 Influenza Virus. N Engl J Med 2009;361 (3):225-229.

Review Article:  World Health Organization. Avian influenza: assessing the pandemic threat

Review Article: Webster RG, Guan Y, Peiris M, Chen H.  H5N1 Influenza Continues To Circulate and Change.  Microbe 2006;12:559-565.

Review Article: Woolhouse MEJ.  Where Do Emerging Pathogens Come from? Microbe 2006;1(11):511-515.

Review Article: Tosh PK, Boyce TG, Poland GA, Vaccine Research Group. Flu myths: dispelling the myths associated with live attenuated influenza vaccine. Mayo Clin Proc. 2008;

83(1):77-84.

Review Article:  Management of Influenza - An Update for 2009.

IDSA Guidelines: Immunization Programs for Infants, Children, Adolescents, and Adults: Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

IDSA Guidelines: Seasonal Influenza in Adults and Children--Diagnosis, Treatment, Chemoprophylaxis, and Institutional Outbreak Management: Clinical Practice Guidelines of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Guidelines:  CDC. Interim Guidance for Infection Control for Care of Patients with Confirmed or Suspected Swine Influenza A (H1N1) Virus Infection in a Healthcare Setting

Guidelines:  WHO. Interim Guidance Infection Prevention and Control in Health care in Providing Care for Confirmed or Suspected A(H1N1) Swine Influenza Patients.

Guidelines:   ACIP: Prevention and Control of Influenza with Vaccines.  MMWR, 2010.

 

 

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Julian W. Tang, Nandini ShettyTommy T.Y. Lam

 

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