[A fatal influenza infection in a 10-year-old boy].
A previously healthy 10-year-old boy died a few days after onset of septicaemia with non-specific clinical symptoms. Influenza B virus was isolated post mortem from pulmonary tissue. The histopathological findings did not indicate a virus disease. Specimens were taken for virus culture from other people in contact with the patient and affected with influenza-like illnesses. One other strain of influenza B virus was isolated. The strains could not be distinguished either serologically or genetically from other influenza B isolates of the season 1992/'93.
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Streeklaboratoria voor de Pathologie en de Microbiologie in Twente en de Gelderse Achterhoek, Enschede.
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D002648:Child; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D009981:Influenza B virus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D007251:Influenza, Human / Q000382:microbiology; D008297:Male