Pandemic versus epidemic influenza mortality: A pattern of changing age distribution
Pandemic versus epidemic influenza mortality: A pattern of changing age distribution
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DOI:
10.1086/515616
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发表时间:
1998-07-01
影响因子:
6.4
通讯作者:
Fukuda, K
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作者:
Simonsen, L;Clarke, MJ;Fukuda, K
Almost all deaths related to current influenza epidemics occur among the elderly. However, mortality was greatest among the young during the 1918-1919 pandemic. This study compared the age distribution of influenza-related deaths in the United States during this century's three influenza A pandemics with that of the following epidemics. Half of influenza-related deaths during the 1968-1969 influenza A (H3N2) pandemic and large proportions of influenza-related deaths during the 1957-1958 influenza A (H2N2) and the 1918-1919 influenza A (H1N1) pandemics occurred among persons