Severe influenza cases in paediatric intensive care units in Germany during the pre-pandemic seasons 2005 to 2008
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- 31 August 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 11 (1) , 233
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-11-233
Abstract
Data on complications in children with seasonal influenza virus infection are limited. We initiated a nation-wide three-year surveillance of children who were admitted to a paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) with severe seasonal influenza.This publication has 26 references indexed in Scilit:
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