Increase in rates of hospitalization due to laboratory-confirmed influenza among children and adults during the 2009-10 influenza pandemic.

Cox CM, D'Mello T, Perez A, Reingold A, Gershman K, Yousey-Hindes K, Arnold KE, Farley MM, Ryan P, Lynfield R, Morin C, Baumbach J, Hancock EB, Zansky S, Bennett NM, Thomas A, Schaffner W, Finelli L. Increase in rates of hospitalization due to laboratory-confirmed influenza among children and adults during the 2009-10 influenza pandemic. The Journal of infectious diseases. 2012 Nov;206(206). 1350-8. PMID: 23002448 [PubMed]

Abstract

The Emerging Infections Programs (EIP) network has conducted population-based surveillance for hospitalizations due to laboratory-confirmed influenza among children since 2003, with the network expanding in 2005 to include adults.