Deaths Associated With Avian Influenza A(H7N9) Virus in China
Authors: Yuehua Ke
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (2013)

Letters16 July 2013Deaths Associated With Avian Influenza A(H7N9) Virus in ChinaYuehua Ke, PhD, MD, Yufei Wang, PhD, MD, Wenyi Zhang, MD, Liuyu Huang, PhD, and Zeliang Chen, PhD, MDYuehua Ke, PhD, MDFrom Institute of Disease Control and Prevention, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, China., Yufei Wang, PhD, MDFrom Institute of Disease Control and Prevention, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, China., Wenyi Zhang, MDFrom Institute of Disease Control and Prevention, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, China., Liuyu Huang, PhDFrom Institute of Disease Control and Prevention, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, China., and Zeliang Chen, PhD, MDFrom Institute of Disease Control and Prevention, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-159-2-201307160-00669 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail Editors' Note: Annals of Internal Medicine recently published this letter reporting 24 fatal cases of H7N9 influenza. Although Annals Information for Authors instructs authors to provide related reports with submitted manuscripts (http://annals.org/public/authorsinfo.aspx#duplicate-manuscripts; http://annals.org/public/authorsinfo.aspx#research-publication-ethics), the authors of this letter neglected to inform us that they had a closely related manuscript under consideration at Clinical Infectious Diseases (Ke Y, Wang Y, Liu S, Guo J, Zhang W, Yuan X, Zhang N, et al. High severity and fatality of human infections with avian influenza A(H7N9) infection in China. Clin Infect Dis. 2013 Jul 4. [Epub ahead of print]) and did not cite the ...References1. Chen Y, Liang W, Yang S, Wu N, Gao H, Sheng J, et al. Human infections with the emerging avian influenza A H7N9 virus from wet market poultry: clinical analysis and characterisation of viral genome. Lancet. 2013;381:1916-1925. [PMID: 23623390] CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar2. Gao R, Cao B, Hu Y, Feng Z, Wang D, Hu W, et al. Human infection with a novel avian-origin influenza A (H7N9) virus. N Engl J Med. 2013;368:1888-97. [PMID: 23577628] CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar3. Li Q, Zhou L, Zhou M, Chen Z, Li F, Wu H, et al. Preliminary Report: Epidemiology of the Avian Influenza A (H7N9) Outbreak in China. N Engl J Med. 2013;:. [PMID: 23614499] MedlineGoogle Scholar4. Cohen J. Influenza. New flu virus in China worries and confuses. Science. 2013;340:129-30. [PMID: 23580498] CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar5. Hvistendahl M, Normile D, and Cohen J. Influenza. Despite large research effort, H7N9 continues to baffle. Science. 2013;340:414-5. [PMID: 23620023] CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAuthors: Yuehua Ke, PhD, MD; Yufei Wang, PhD, MD; Wenyi Zhang, MD; Liuyu Huang, PhD; Zeliang Chen, PhD, MDAffiliations: From Institute of Disease Control and Prevention, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.Note: Drs. Ke, Wang, Zhang, and Huang contributed equally to this work.Grant Support: By the National Key Program for Infectious Diseases of China (2013ZX10004-203, 2013ZX10004-217-002, 2013ZX10004805-006).Disclosures: None disclosed.This article was published at www.annals.org on 4 June 2013.This article was published at www.annals.org on 4 June 2013. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byHealth and Economic Benefits of Early Vaccination and Nonpharmaceutical Interventions for a Human Influenza A (H7N9) Pandemic A Modeling StudyNayer Khazeni, MD, MS, David W. Hutton, MS, PhD, Cassandra I.F. Collins, MPH, Alan M. Garber, MD, PhD, and Douglas K. Owens, MD, MSCorrection: Deaths Associated With Avian Influenza A(H7N9) Virus in China 16 July 2013Volume 159, Issue 2 Page: 159-160 Keywords Acute respiratory distress syndrome Age distribution Avian influenza Fevers H1N1 H5N1 H7N9 Hospitalizations Infectious diseases Influenza A virus Pharynx Pneumonia Polymerase chain reaction Prevention, policy, and public health Pulmonary diseases Respiratory failure Reverse transcription Upper respiratory tract infections ePublished: 8 March 2020 Issue Published: 16 July 2013 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright © by American College of Physicians. All Rights Reserved.PDF downloadLoading ...