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[Fatal pneumonitis due to oseltamivir-resistant new influenza A(H1N1) in the case of an intensive care patient]

Author(s): Aardema H, Tulleken JE, van den Biggelaar RJ, Wolters BA, de Jager CM, Boucher CA, Riezebos-Brilman A

Affiliation(s): Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen, Afd. Intensive Care Volwassenen, The Netherlands. h.aardema@int.umcg.nl

Publication date & source: 2010, Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd., 154:A1634.

Publication type: Case Reports; English Abstract

A 58-year-old man was submitted to our intensive care ward with respiratory failure due to pneumonitis. He had previously been treated for non-Hodgkin lymphoma by autologous stem cell transplantation, as a result of which bone marrow function was reduced. Further analysis showed infection with new influenza A(H1N1); typing revealed an oseltamivir-resistant subpopulation (H275Y). The patient was treated with oseltamivir and intravenously with zanamivir, but died of respiratory disease progression. This is the first published case of oseltamivir-resistant new influenza A(H1N1) infection in the Netherlands.

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