title: Relationship between "purulent bronchitis" in military populations in Europe prior to 1918 and the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic.
abstract: Purulent bronchitis was a distinctive and apparently new lethal respiratory infection in British and American soldiers during the First World War. Mortality records suggest that purulent bronchitis caused localized outbreaks in the midst of a broad epidemic wave of lethal respiratory illness in 1916-1917. Probable purulent bronchitis deaths in the Australian Army showed an epidemic wave that moved from France to England. Purulent bronchitis may have been the clinical expression of infection with a novel influenza virus which also could have been a direct precursor of the 1918 pandemic strain.
authors: Australian Army Malaria Institute, Enoggera, QLD, Australia. dennis.shanks@defence.gov.au
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Dennis Shanks
authors: Alison
authors: A
authors: Mackenzie
authors: Michael
authors: M
authors: Waller
authors: John F
authors: JF
authors: Brundage
mesh_terms: D001991:Bronchitis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality; D005060:Europe / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007251:Influenza, Human / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008889:Military Personnel; D058873:Pandemics; D016019:Survival Analysis