[Epidemiological analysis of the influenza virus A carrier state in healthy children].
Clinical and laboratory examinations in two permanently observed children's institutions were carried out in 1968--1978. Altogether, 241 children were examined virologically 759 times, of them 181 children were found to be truly healthy. In the epidemic period the latter yielded virus in 3.7%, in the interepidemic period in 1%. Unlike asymptomatic infection, transitory virus carrier state was not accompanied by antibody production, and in a number of such cases subsequently led to an overt clinical disease.
D000956:Antigens, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D002353:Carrier State / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003289:Convalescence; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D009980:Influenza A virus / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification; D007251:Influenza, Human / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D008297:Male; D012426:Russia
D000956:Antigens, Viral
Epidemiologicheskiĭ analiz nositel'stva virusa grippa A u zdorovykh deteĭ.