A severe influenza season in Austria and its impact on the paediatric population: mortality and hospital admission rates, november 2017 - march 2018

• Main Authors: Benno Kohlmaier (Author), Vendula Svendova (Author), Thomas Walcher (Author), Heidemarie Pilch (Author), Larissa Krenn (Author), Herbert Kurz (Author), Karl Zwiauer (Author), Werner Zenz (Author), for the Austrian Paediatric Influenza Network (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background In Austria paediatric influenza-associated hospitalisations and deaths have never been systematically monitored. We examined the influenza season 2017/18 in terms of hospitalisation and mortality in the Austrian paediatric population and put the results into perspective of the av...