Clinical Profile of Swine Flu in Children at a tertiary care center
Keywords:
Influenza, Swine Flu, Clinical profile, Public Health
Abstract
Pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009 has posed a serious public health challenge world-wide, after that this is circulating as seasonal influenza virus. This study was aimed to analyze clinical profile of the swine flu cases in 2015. This Observational study was conducted in a tertiary care hospital, S. N. Medical College & Hospital Agra in 2015. In this study 28 Swine Flu confirmed cases were included. Mean age of confirmed Swine Flu cases was 3.22±3.06 years with age range 1 mo to 14 yrs and Male/Female ratio was 2.1:1. There was no significant difference in mean age in both the sexes, males were significantly higher than females and patient was significantly higher within 1-6 year age group. Fever, cough, coryza were the predominant symptoms. Only one patient (5%) required ICU admission and mortality was nil.References
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