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Acute respiratory failure from pandemic influenza A (H1N1) in an intensive care unit in southern Brazil

2010; BioMed Central; Volume: 14; Issue: Suppl 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1186/cc8323

1466-609X

Sérgio Beduschi Filho, Dimytri Siqueira, SC Carvalho Flores, I Yoshiko Masukawa, Lara Patrícia Kretzer, AC Burigo Grumann, Israel Silva Maia, Mariângela Pimentel Pincelli,

Respiratory viral infections research

In the winter of 2009 the influenza A (H1N1) pandemic reached Brazil, affecting severely its southern states. A total 68,806 cases of suspected pandemic influenza A infection had been reported in Brazil and 91% of the specimens tested were positive. Incidence of pandemic influenza A in southern Brazil was 137/100,000. In the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, Nereu Ramos Hospital is the referral center for the treatment of infectious diseases, and it provided eight intensive care beds for the management of acute respiratory failure from suspected cases of influenza A during the 2009 pandemic.