Influenza-Related Parotitis during a Large Mumps Outbreak — Arkansas, 2016–2017

During August 2016-July 2017, Arkansas experienced a large mumps (parotitis) outbreak; however, mumps-negative cases of parotitis were also identified in this period. Nineteen of 215 samples (9%) randomly selected for influenza PCR testing were positive for influenza A virus. Practitioners should co...

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Autores principales: Labuda, Sarah M., Yang, Cheng, Daniels, Carol, Young, Susan R., Safi, Haytham, Haselow, Dirk
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7181805/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32337511
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Sumario:During August 2016-July 2017, Arkansas experienced a large mumps (parotitis) outbreak; however, mumps-negative cases of parotitis were also identified in this period. Nineteen of 215 samples (9%) randomly selected for influenza PCR testing were positive for influenza A virus. Practitioners should consider influenza as a cause of nonmumps parotitis.

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