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Sensitive diagnostics confirm that influenza C is an uncommon cause of medically attended respiratory illness in adults

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Clin Infect Dis. 2017 May 25. doi: 10.1093/cid/cix471. [Epub ahead of print]
[h=1]Sensitive diagnostics confirm that influenza C is an uncommon cause of medically attended respiratory illness in adults.[/h] Nesmith N[SUP]1[/SUP], Williams JV[SUP]2[/SUP], Johnson M[SUP]2[/SUP], Zhu Y[SUP]1[/SUP], Griffin M[SUP]1,[/SUP][SUP]3[/SUP], Talbot HK[SUP]1[/SUP].
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[h=3]Abstract[/h] Among 4200 adults who presented with acute respiratory symptoms at a variety of medical practice settings (November 2006 through May 2012), only 13 (0.3%) nasal/throat swabs were positive for influenza C. Influenza C was rarely associated with medical care visits in adults.
? The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved. For permissions, e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.


[h=4]KEYWORDS:[/h] Adults; Influenza C; RT-PCR

PMID: 28541414 DOI: 10.1093/cid/cix471
 
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