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Original Article

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1993;36(3):379-385. Published online March 15, 1993.

Influenza Epidemic in the Pediatric Patients in Seoul 1991

Hyun Mi HM Kim¹, Se Ho SH Oh¹, Eun Young EY Cho¹, Ki Soo KS Kim¹, Young Seo YS Park¹, Hyung Nam HN Moon¹, Chang Yee CY Hong¹, Young Suhn YS Kim², Kee Duk KD Park²

¹Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Ulsan, Seoul, Korea
²National Institute of Health

Abstract

Influenza virus culture was performed in 149 patients with influenza-like illness who were admitted or visited to the Department of Pediatrics, Asan Medical Center from january 1991 to March,1991. The results were as follows : 1) Of the total 149 patients, influenza virus were isolated in the 15 cases. : 15 isolates were characterized by the WHO Collaborating Center for influenza : 7 cases were very similar to influenza A/Taiwan/1/86(H1N1), 1 case was A/Beijing/353/89(H3N2), 7 cases were B/Guangdon-g/55/89. 2) The age of 15 patients who were confirmed by viral isolation was between 11 months to 10 years. 3) The most common clinical symptoms were fever, vomiting, cough, nausea in decreasing order. 4) Of the total 149 patients, Reye syndrome occured in two patients and myositis occured in one : Influenza A/Taiwan/1/86(H1N1)virus was isolated in one Reye syndrome patient.

Keywords :Influenza virus