التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
First wave of the influenza A/H1N1v pandemic in Switzerland |
| المؤلفون: |
Nickel, C H, Stephan, F P, Dangel, M, Blume, K, Gehrisch, R, Dumoulin, A, Tschudin, S, Keller, D I, Hirsch, H H, Widmer, A F, Bingisser, R |
| المصدر: |
Nickel, C H; Stephan, F P; Dangel, M; Blume, K; Gehrisch, R; Dumoulin, A; Tschudin, S; Keller, D I; Hirsch, H H; Widmer, A F; Bingisser, R (2009). First wave of the influenza A/H1N1v pandemic in Switzerland. Swiss Medical Weekly, 139(51-52):731-737. |
| بيانات النشر: |
SMW supporting association |
| سنة النشر: |
2009 |
| المجموعة: |
University of Zurich (UZH): ZORA (Zurich Open Repository and Archive |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
Clinic and Policlinic for Internal Medicine, 610 Medicine & health |
| الوصف: |
AIM: To describe the disease burden, clinical pattern and outcome of influenza-related cases presenting to a Swiss Emergency Department (ED), during the first wave of the 2009 pandemic. METHODS: Retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data at the University Hospital of Basel, Switzerland. All patients presenting to the ED with influenza-like symptoms from June 1 to October 23, 2009, were studied. Rate of hospitalisation, demographic characteristics, symptoms, microbiological diagnoses and complications of influenza infection were analysed. RESULTS: One tenth (808 of 8356 patients) of all non-trauma ED presentations, during the study period, were a result of suspected influenza-related illness. Influenza A/H1N1v infection accounted for 5% of these presentations. Patients aged 50 years or less accounted for 87% of these presentations and for 100% of A/H1N1v infection. The highest detection rate of A/H1N1v-infection occurred in July, and the highest rate of clinical presentations occurred in August 2009. Underlying medical disease was observed in 14% of all patients. The presence of fever, cough and myalgia was the prime clinical predictor for the presence of A/H1N1v infection. 16% of patients with this triad suffered from A/H1N1v. CONCLUSION: Suspected A/H1N1v infection contributed to a considerable health care burden in Switzerland. However, the rate of true positivity was low (5%), hospitalisations rare (5%), and mortality did not occur. Therefore, the first wave of the A/H1N1v pandemic in Switzerland was rather media "hype" than real threat. |
| نوع الوثيقة: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| وصف الملف: |
application/pdf |
| اللغة: |
English |
| تدمد: |
1424-3997 |
| Relation: |
https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/28265/12/smw-12952_V.pdf; info:pmid/19918702; urn:issn:1424-3997 |
| الاتاحة: |
https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/28265/ |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| رقم الانضمام: |
edsbas.7E43D250 |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
BASE |
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