%0 Journal Article
%T Influenza
%A Sol¨®rzano-Santos
%A Fortino
%A Miranda-Novales
%A Ma. Guadalupe
%J Bolet¨ªn m¨¦dico del Hospital Infantil de M¨¦xico
%D 2009
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X influenza is a highly contagious acute viral infection of the respiratory tract. it is caused by influenza a, b and c virus. infection occurs at all ages, but during epidemics the morbidity is higher at extremes of life. sick patients demand medical care and hospitalization, consuming limited resources, increasing length of hospital-days and eventually death. recently, in mexico a novel influenza a virus (h1n1) caused an epidemic. with the new virus surveillance, infections due also to seasonal virus were documented. this update highlights recommendations for prevention and treatment of influenza.
%K influenza
%K prevention
%K influenza vaccine
%K h1n1 influenza a virus.
%U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1665-11462009000500010&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en