title: H7N9 influenza: something old, something new ….
abstract: In February 2013, two patients living in Shanghai were admitted to the Shanghai Fifth Hospital with fever, cough and respiratory tract infection, followed by severe pneumonia, respiratory distress and multiorgan dysfunction(1). While the first patient, an 87-year-old man, did not present a history of exposure to live birds during the preceding 2 weeks, the second patient, a 27-year-old man,was a butcher at a market selling live birds. A 35-year-old female from the Anhui Province of China, the third patient who became infected, visited a chicken market a week before her symptoms started (2,3). All three patients died, and their infections did not appear to be epidemiologically linked (4).
authors.affiliation: Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, New York University School of Medicine, 180 Varick Street, Room 643, New York, NY, USA. steinr01@nyu.edu, richardastein@gmail.com.
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Stein
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005260:Female; D015321:Gene Rearrangement / Q000235:genetics; D040961:Genetic Drift; D006801:Humans; D064766:Influenza A Virus, H7N9 Subtype / Q000235:genetics*; D007251:Influenza, Human / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000235:genetics*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009154:Mutation / Q000235:genetics*; D013624:Taiwan / Q000453:epidemiology; D055815:Young Adult