| hospital capacity during an influenza pandemic-buenos aires, argentina, 2009. | at a major referral hospital in the southern hemisphere, the 2009 influenza a (h1n1) pandemic brought increased critical care demand and more unscheduled nursing absences. because of careful preparedness planning, including rapid expansion and redistribution of the numbers of available beds and staff, hospital surge capacity was not exceeded. | 2010 | 21087127 |
| genetic and phylogenetic analyses of influenza a h1n1pdm virus in buenos aires, argentina. | an influenza pandemic caused by swine-origin influenza virus a/h1n1 (h1n1pdm) spread worldwide in 2009, with 12,080 confirmed cases and 626 deaths occurring in argentina. a total of 330 h1n1pdm viruses were detected from may to august 2009, and phylogenetic and genetic analyses of 21 complete genome sequences from both mild and fatal cases were achieved with reference to concatenated whole genomes. in addition, the analysis of another 16 hemagglutinin (ha), neuraminidase (na), and matrix (m) gen ... | 2010 | 21047959 |
| healthcare personnel infected with novel influenza a h1n1 virus in university hospitals in buenos aires, argentina. | data on the clinical presentation, risk factors, and outcomes for healthcare personnel (hcp) infected with influenza a h1n1 virus (h1n1) are limited. from june to july 2009, a prospective study was conducted among hcp with influenza-like illness (ili) at university hospitals in buenos aires. a reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rt-pcr) was used to diagnose h1n1. a logistic regression model was developed to identify factors associated with h1n1. among 1519 hcp, 96 (6.3%) were diagno ... | 2011 | 20854220 |
| emergence of intratreatment resistance to oseltamivir in pandemic influenza a h1n1 2009 virus. | pandemic influenza a h1n1 2009 virus presents a new challenge to health authorities and communities worldwide. in argentina, the outbreak was at its peak by the end of june 2009, during the southern winter. a systematic analysis of samples from patients with pandemic h1n1 2009 studied in our laboratory (virology laboratory, hospital de niños r gutiérrez, buenos aires, argentina) detected two patients presenting intratreatment emergence of the h275y neuraminidase mutation, which confers resistanc ... | 2010 | 20834106 |
| pandemic (h1n1) 2009 cases, buenos aires, argentina. | to determine clinical and virologic characteristics of pandemic (h1n1) 2009 in buenos aires, argentina, we conducted real-time reverse transcription-pcr on samples from patients with influenza-like illness, june 11-30, 2009. of 513 patients tested, 54% were positive for influenza virus subtype h1n1. infection rate was lowest for patients >or=60 years of age. | 2010 | 20113568 |
| [community-acquired pneumonia in patients in 2 hospital populations]. | patients hospitalized with community acquired pneumonia were studied prospectively in two hospitals located in the surroundings of buenos aires city. fifty two patients from general hospital manuel belgrano (hmb) were included from march 1998 to february 1999 and 23 patients from hospital dr a. cetrangolo (hcet) for respiratory disease, were included from june 2000 to may 2001. patients with lung tuberculosis, lung neoplasia and hiv infection were excluded. clinical background, signs and symptom ... | 2003 | 12673953 |
| multicentered study of viral acute lower respiratory infections in children from four cities of argentina, 1993-1994. | this study describes the first multicentered study of acute lower respiratory infection viral etiology in young children from four different geographical areas of argentina. a total of 1,278 children under 5 years of age, hospitalized in primary care centers from buenos aires, córdoba, santa fé and mar del plata cities during a 2-year period were studied (1993-1994). nasopharyngeal aspirates were investigated for respiratory syncytial virus (rsv), adenovirus, parainfluenza, and influenza a and b ... | 2001 | 11360249 |