Viral Etiology of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbations during the A/H1N1pdm09 Pandemic and Postpandemic Period by Ivan Sanz, Sonia Tamames, Silvia Rojo, Mar Justel, José Eugenio Lozano, Carlos Disdier, Tomás Vega, Raúl Ortiz de Lejarazu

“…Emergence of A/H1N1pdm influenza virus in the 2009 pandemic changed the viral etiology of exacerbations that were reported before the pandemic. …”
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Ode to Oseltamivir and Amantadine? by JM Conly, BL Johnston

“…Influenza A and B viruses are the two major types of influenza viruses that cause human epidemic disease. …”
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Development of Primer Panels for Whole-Genome Amplification and Sequencing of Human Seasonal Coronaviruses: hCoV-OC43, hCoV-HKU1, hCoV-229E, and hCoV-NL63 by Tamila Musaeva, Artem Fadeev, Maria Pisareva, Veronika Eder, Andrey Ksenafontov, Margarita Korzhanova, Valery Tsvetkov, Alexander Perederiy, Irina Kiseleva, Daria Danilenko, Dmitry Lioznov, Andrey Komissarov

“…The panel was validated using nasopharyngeal swab samples collected within the Global Influenza Hospital Surveillance Network (GIHSN) project. …”
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H3N2 Virus as Causative Agent of ARDS Requiring Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Support by Adriano Peris, Giovanni Zagli, Pasquale Bernardo, Massimo Bonacchi, Morena Cozzolino, Lucia Perretta, Alberta Azzi, Giovanni Cianchi

“…Pandemic influenza virus A(H1N1) 2009 was associated with a higher risk of viral pneumonia in comparison with seasonal influenza viruses. …”
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Postinfluenza Vaccination Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura in Three Elderly Patients by Joji Nagasaki, Masahiro Manabe, Kentaro Ido, Hiroyoshi Ichihara, Yasutaka Aoyama, Tadanobu Ohta, Yoshio Furukawa, Atsuko Mugitani

“…We report the cases of three elderly patients who developed ITP after receiving influenza vaccinations. The platelet count of an 81-year-old woman fell to 27,000/μL after she received an influenza vaccination. …”
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Development and evaluation of a recombinant monoclonal human antibody with virus-neutralizing activity against the F glycoprotein of respiratory syncytial virus by Sergey A. Klotchenko, Ekaterina A. Romanovskaya-Romanko, Marina A. Plotnikova, Anastasia A. Pulkina, Aram A. Shaldzhyan, Dmitry S. Balabashin, Victoria A. Toporova, Teimur K. Aliev, Natalia E. Gyulikhandanova, Dmitry A. Lioznov

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FLUed: A Novel Four-Layer Model for Simulating Epidemic Dynamics and Assessing Intervention Policies by Chung-Yuan Huang, Tzai-Hung Wen, Yu-Shiuan Tsai

“…From the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic, to the 2009 swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) pandemic, to the projected highly pathogenic avian influenza A event, emerging infectious diseases highlight the importance of computational epidemiology to assess potential intervention policies. …”
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Prevalence and Genetic Characteristics of Human Bocaviruses Detected in Patients with Acute Respiratory Infections in Bulgaria by Neli Korsun, Svetla Angelova, Ivelina Trifonova, Silvia Voleva, Iliana Grigorova, Iren Tzotcheva, Sirma Mileva, Penka Perenovska

“…HBoV was identified in 98 (5.3%) patients and was the 6th most prevalent virus after respiratory-syncytial virus (20.4%), influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 (11.1%), A(H3N2) (10.5%), rhinoviruses (9.9%), and adenoviruses (6.8%). …”
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Fatal H1N1-Related Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy in an Adult by Yu-Jin Lee, D. Scott Smith, Vivek A. Rao, Robert D. Siegel, Jon Kosek, Carol A. Glaser, Alexander C. Flint

“…Acute necrotizing encephalopathy (ANE) is a severe neurological complication of influenza infection, including H1N1 influenza. Many cases of ANE have been reported in the pediatric literature, but very few cases have been described in adults. …”
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Disease Association and Diagnosis of Human Herpesvirus 6 by JM Weber, GAR Wilson

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Epidemiology of respiratory viruses according to age group, 2023–24 winter season, Kyoto, Japan by Yasufumi Matsumura, Masaki Yamamoto, Yusuke Tsuda, Koh Shinohara, Yasuhiro Tsuchido, Satomi Yukawa, Taro Noguchi, Kazuo Takayama, Miki Nagao

“…The most prevalent viruses in the < 6, 6–17, 18–64, and ≥ 65 year age groups were rhinovirus/enterovirus, RSV, and SARS-CoV-2; influenza virus, seasonal coronavirus, and rhinovirus/enterovirus; SARS-CoV-2, seasonal coronavirus, and influenza virus; and SARS-CoV-2, seasonal coronavirus, and influenza virus, respectively. …”
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Planning for the Pandemic by Joanne Embree

“…Will it have the same transmission characteristics as the yearly endemic influenza strains or will it be so different that our routine infection prevention precautions for influenza will be ineffective? …”
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Synergistic Therapeutic Effects and Immunoregulatory Mechanism of Maxing Shigan Decoction Combined with Sijunzi Decoction on Viral Pneumonia in Mice by Huimin Huang, Huanhua Yang, Zurong Zhang, Yunlong Song, Li Li, Ke Li, Junjie Zhang, Xiaoyu Qi, Ying Wu

“…Influenza is defined in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) as an epidemic febrile illness and is usually treated with herbal compound formulas under the guidance of the “Qu Xie and Fu Zheng” theories. …”
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Association of outpatient use of renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system blockers on outcomes of acute respiratory illness during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cohort study by Molly Moore Jeffery, Lucas Oliveira J e Silva, Fernanda Bellolio, Nathan W Cummins, Timothy M Dempsey, Vesna D Garovic, Andrew Limper

“…Objectives Evaluate the associations between patients taking ACE inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) and their clinical outcomes after an acute viral respiratory illness (AVRI) due to COVID-19.Design Retrospective cohort.Setting The USA; 2017–2018 influenza season, 2018–2019 influenza season, and 2019–2020 influenza/COVID-19 season.Participants People with hypertension (HTN) taking an ACEi, ARB or other HTN medications, and experiencing AVRI.Main outcome measures Change in hospital admission, intensive care unit (ICU) or coronary care unit (CCU), acute respiratory distress (ARD), ARD syndrome (ARDS) and all-cause mortality, comparing COVID-19 to pre-COVID-19 influenza seasons.Results The cohort included 1 059 474 episodes of AVRI (653 797 filled an ACEi or ARB, and 405 677 other HTN medications). 58.6% were women and 72.9% with age ≥65. …”
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SARS-CoV-2 infection rates and associated risk factors in healthcare workers: systematic review and meta-analysis by Amit Bansal, Mai-Chi Trieu, Emily M. Eriksson, Fan Zhou, Jodie McVernon, Karl Albert Brokstad, Rebecca Jane Cox

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Anthroponoses: humans infecting animals with infectious diseases by Clement Meseko, Peace Ochai, Meshach Maina

“…The recurring classical H1N1 swine influenza virus, which is circulating even now, is a spillover from the 1918 human influenza pandemic that was introduced into the pig population. …”
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Pandemic mitigation: Bringing it home by Tom Reichert

“…The epidemiology of pandemic influenza is scarcely considered.   We summarize here the envelope of mortality attributable to epidemic and pandemic influenza in the last 90 years of the last century as a lead in to a presentation of the multinational case age distribution of the novel H1N1 pandemic of 2009. …”
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Mathematical Model for Transmission and Control of Covid-19. by Epasu, Simon

“…Mathematical models have been used to study the transmission and control of previous infectious disease outbreaks such as the 1918 influenza pandemic, the 2002-2004 SARS epidemic, and the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreaks. …”
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Analysis of Production Function in Layer Chicken Business in Soppeng District by Hasraful Anang, Syahriadi Kadir

“…Independent variables consisted of seedlings, labor, cage area, farmer experience, Newcastle Disease (ND) vaccine, Avian Influenza (AI) vaccine, concentrate feed, ground corn feed and bran feed. …”
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Cuáles Son los Riesgos de Contraer Enfermedades Asociadas con Pollos? by Jorge Rey, C. Roxanne Rutledge-Connelly, Amy Simonne

“…Salmonella, E. coli, los viruses que causan la gripe de las aves (influenza aviar, influenza de aves), y algunos de los viruses que causan encefalitis están asociados con los pollos. …”
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