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Case Reports
. 2013 Jul;19(7):1179-81.
doi: 10.3201/eid1907.130523.

Avian influenza A(H7N9) virus infections, Shanghai, China

Zeng Mei, Shuihua Lu, Xianzheng Wu, Lingyun Shao, Yu Hui, Jiali Wang, Tao Li, Haixia Zhang, Xiaohong Wang, Feifei Yang, Jialin Jin, Ying Zhang, Wenhong Zhang
Case Reports

Avian influenza A(H7N9) virus infections, Shanghai, China

Zeng Mei et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2013 Jul.
No abstract available

Keywords: China; H7N9; Shanghai; avian influenza virus; infections; influenza; outbreak; viruses.

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Chest computed tomographic scans for 3 patients infected with avian influenza A(H7N9) virus, Shanghai, China. A) Patient 1, who died, showing extensive lung infiltrates at day 7 of illness onset. B) Patient 3, who had a severe case, showing partial rear lung infiltrations on both sides of the lung and partial normal lung at day 7 of illness onset. C) Patient 4, who had a mild case, showing only partial left lung lobar involvement at day 9 of illness onset.
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