impact of respiratory infections by influenza viruses a and b in pediatrics patients from federal university of paraná, brazil. | the objective of the present study was to determine the impact of influenza virus on pediatric hospitalized patients. we retrospectively reviewed records of children with laboratory diagnoses, by cell culture and/or indirect immunofluorescence assay, of influenza virus seen in a period of 6 years. a total of 1,033 samples were analyzed, 45 (4.3%) of them being reactive to influenza virus. thirty-one samples were positive to influenza a virus and 14 to influenza b. the frequency of hospitalizatio ... | 2007 | 17625765 |