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Swine Influenza A(H3N2) Virus Infection in Immunocompromised Man, Italy, 2014

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Emerg Infect Dis. 2015 Jul;21(7):1189-91. doi: 10.3201/eid2107.140981.
[h=1]Swine Influenza A(H3N2) Virus Infection in Immunocompromised Man, Italy, 2014.[/h] Piralla A, Moreno A, Orlandi ME, Percivalle E, Chiapponi C, Vezzoli F, Baldanti F; Influenza Surveillance Study Group.
[h=3]Abstract[/h] Because swine influenza virus infection is seldom diagnosed in humans, its frequency might be underestimated. We report a immunocompromised hematologic patient with swine influenza A(H3N2) virus in 2014 in Italy. Local pigs were the source of this human infection.


[h=4]KEYWORDS:[/h] Italy; Swine influenza; influenza; subtype H3N2; viruses; zoonoses

PMID: 26079745 [PubMed - in process] Free full text
 
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