Trans Assoc Am Physicians
Published: July 1974
Mycoses
August 2018
Department of Clinical Microbiology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 8, Ireland.
Influenza virus infection is now recognised as a risk factor for invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA). Delays in diagnosis contribute to delayed commencement of antifungal therapy. In addition, the emergence of resistance to first-line triazole antifungal agents puts emphasis on early detection to prevent adverse outcomes.
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April 2009
Health Protection Agency Centre for Infections, London, UK.
Encephalitis lethargica (EL) was first reported in 1917 in central Europe. It became epidemic in the winter of 1918/1919 concurrently with the pandemic of influenza, and by then had reached Russia and North America. It spread throughout the world in epidemic form, mainly in the succeeding winters, up to 1927.
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March 2006
Państwowy Zakład Higieny, Krajowy Ośrodek ds. Grypy w Warszawie.
Influenza is a seasonal viral disease, with the peak of morbidity occurring in Poland between January and March. It is estimated that up to 70% of respiratory infections during the season is caused by this virus. Influenza virus infection poses an ultimate threat to the elderly > or = 65 years old and chronically ill, in whom postinfluenzal complications--including viral pneumonia and secondary bacterial pneumonia--cause from 0.
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March 2003
Institute of Virology, University of Vienna, Austria.
Twenty-one patients aged 4-78 years with influenza A virus-associated acute encephalopathy were studied. Influenza A virus could be detected only in a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) specimen obtained from 1 of 18 patients, despite the use of a highly sensitive polymerase chain reaction assay. Six patients experienced influenzal encephalopathy during the course of respiratory illness.
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July 2000
Department of General Medicine, Kyushu University Hospital, Fukuoka.
Three Japanese outpatients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection on anti-retroviral therapy showed evidence of influenza in January 1999. CD4+ T cell counts of these patients prior to the diagnosis of influenza were 72, 248, and 152/mm3, and HIV RNA levels were 19,953, 1,259, and 1,585 copies/ml, respectively. Fever continued 4 to 5 days with no severe complications.
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