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Pediatr Pulmonol. 2010 Dec 3. [Epub ahead of print]
Bronchoscopic findings in a child with pandemic novel H1N1 influenza a and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
Sharp JK, Hereth J, Fasanello J.
Pediatric Pulmonology, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York.
Abstract
The spectrum of disease with pandemic novel H1N1 influenza A (2009) virus ranges from non-febrile, mild upper respiratory tract infection to severe or fatal pneumonia. We report the bronchoscopic findings associated with a fatal case of H1N1 influenza A associated with co-infection with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in a previously healthy child, which were more severe than those previously described as associated with seasonal influenza infection alone. The severity of the airway pathology seen on bronchoscopy in this patient may be due to a unique effect of the H1N1 influenza A virus or may be as a result of a destructive synergism between this virus and bacteria such as MRSA. Pediatr Pulmonol. ? 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
PMID: 21132745 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21132745
Bronchoscopic findings in a child with pandemic novel H1N1 influenza a and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
Sharp JK, Hereth J, Fasanello J.
Pediatric Pulmonology, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York.
Abstract
The spectrum of disease with pandemic novel H1N1 influenza A (2009) virus ranges from non-febrile, mild upper respiratory tract infection to severe or fatal pneumonia. We report the bronchoscopic findings associated with a fatal case of H1N1 influenza A associated with co-infection with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in a previously healthy child, which were more severe than those previously described as associated with seasonal influenza infection alone. The severity of the airway pathology seen on bronchoscopy in this patient may be due to a unique effect of the H1N1 influenza A virus or may be as a result of a destructive synergism between this virus and bacteria such as MRSA. Pediatr Pulmonol. ? 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
PMID: 21132745 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21132745