Volume 24, Issue 106, November - December, 2020

Predictors of influenza A and influenza B in children 3 - 18 years in epidemic seasons 2017 - 2018 and 2018 - 2019

Tetyana Pokrovska¹, Vira Hnatiuk¹, Halyna Lytvyn¹, Natalia Pokrovska²

¹Pediatric Infectious Diseases Department, Higher State Educational Establishment of Ukraine Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, Lviv, Ukraine
²Department of therapy № 1, medical diagnostics and hematology and transfusion FPGE, Higher State Educational Establishment of Ukraine, Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, Lviv, Ukraine

ABSTRACT

The aim of the study is to optimize the early diagnosis of influenza A and influenza B, by careful analysis of the clinical and laboratory features of the disease course in children aged 3 to 18 years in the epidemic seasons of 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 in Ukraine. 209 children with influenza who were treated in hospital were taken to consideration. Based on the results of the examination, two groups were formed. The first (I) group consisted of 122 children with influenza A, the second (II) group included 87 patients with influenza B. The result of the study is the delineation of clinical symptoms characteristic of influenza A and influenza B. It may allow to suspect a specific disease caused by a certain type of virus, especially in several strains of influenza circulation. Detection of clinical predictors of a particular type of influenza virus in a patient allows us to predict the course of the disease, possible complications and their nature.

Keywords: influenza A (H3N2), influenza B, predictor symptoms, children

Medical Science, 2020, 24(106), 4196-4202

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