Clinical Findings for Early Human Cases of Influenza A(H7N9) Virus Infection, Shanghai, China

CDC Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volume 19, Number 7—July 2013

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Shuihua Lu¹ , Yufang Zheng¹, Tao Li¹, Yunwen Hu¹, Xinian Liu, Xiuhong Xi, Qingguo Chen, Qingle Wang, Ye Cao, Yanbing Wang, Lijun Zhou, Douglas Lowrie, and Jing Bao

Author affiliations: Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, Shanghai, China (S. Lu, Y. Zheng, T. Li, Y. Hu, X. Liu, X. Xi, Q. Chen, Q. Wang, Y. Cao, Y. Wang, L. Zhou, D. Lowrie); Henry M Jackson Foundation–Division of AIDS, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA (J. Bao)

 

Abstract

A novel strain of influenza A(H7N9) virus has emerged in China and is causing mild to severe clinical symptoms in infected humans. Some case-patients have died. To further knowledge of this virus, we report the characteristics and clinical histories of 4 early case-patients.

Document:  http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/19/7/13-0612_article.htm