Acta clinica Croatica, Vol. 58. No. 3., 2019.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.20471/acc.2019.58.03.04
PANDEMIC INFLUENZA A (H1N1) 2009 PRESENTING AS A MILD DISEASE IN CHILDREN IN A CROATIAN CLINICAL CENTRE
Svjetlana Grgić
orcid.org/0000-0003-2543-9987
; Department of Infectious Diseases, Mostar University Hospital, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina; School of Medicine, University of Mostar, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Elvira Čeljuska-Tošev
; School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Dr. Fran Mihaljević University Hospital for Infectious Diseases, Zagreb, Croatia
Jadranka Nikolić
; Department of Infectious Diseases, Mostar University Hospital, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina; School of Medicine, University of Mostar, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Filipa Markotić
orcid.org/0000-0002-4381-9601
; School of Medicine, University of Mostar, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mladenka Vukojević
; School of Medicine, University of Mostar, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Helien Bebek-Ivanković
; School of Medicine, University of Mostar, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ilija Kuzman
; School of Medicine, University of Mostar, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina; School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Dr. Fran Mihaljević University Hospital for Infectious Diseases, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Pandemic influenza A virus (H1N1) 2009 causes a disease that is epidemiologically and clinically not significantly different from seasonal influenza, but there are differences. The aim of the study was to display and compare epidemiological and clinical characteristics of pandemic
influenza in children. At Dr. Fran Mihaljević University Hospital for Infectious Diseases in Zagreb, in the first two seasons, the incidence of pandemic influenza virus A (H1N1) in particular was exhaustively
analyzed only in patients with laboratory-confirmed pandemic influenza A virus (H1N1) 2009. In hospitalized children with documented influenza pandemic, moderate form of the disease predominated,
which ultimately meant shorter hospital stay and fewer complications. Otitis media was the rarest complication in children in both seasons. In conclusion, children younger than 5 years, especially boys, were vulnerable groups for pandemic influenza, presenting as a mild disease with low mortality and few complications. Most of the affected children with influenza did not have important risk factors such as asthma and obesity, highlighted by other authors as significant risk factors.
Keywords
Influenza A virus; H1N1 subtype; Croatia; Risk factors; Child
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230056
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Publication date:
1.9.2019.
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