Is one of the three categories of influenza virus classified according to the antigens in the protein coat. Influenza A causes the flu in man, several other mammals and in birds. Disease may be mild or severe and can be fatal. Influenza A is the basis of all historic pandemic influenzas. Extreme genetic instability; very active genetic drift and shift enabling frequent mutations and alteration in immune/vaccine recognition.
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Is one of the three categories of influenza virus. Influenza B causes influenza in man and seals. Genetic drift occurs, but reassortment is almost non-existent rendering the virus fairly stable. Resulting illness is usually mild upper respiratory; rarely neurological complications.
Is one of the three categories of influenza virus. Influenza C causes influenza that infects humans only, causing mild upper respiratory infections. The virus is very stable with no genetic shift and only rarely genetic shift.
Influenza is transmitted via large droplets, contact transmission (ex. touching a surface where cough-derived, virus-laden droplets have fallen and then rubbing your nose or touching your lips or eyes) and small aerosol nuclei (airborne) that can remain in the air for long periods.
Substance being infused.
The introduction of a solution (infusate) through a blood vessel via a catheter lumen. This may include continuous infusions such as nutritional fluids or medications, or it may include intermittent infusions such as flushes or IV antimicrobial administration, or blood, in the case of transfusion or hemodialysis.
Also referred to as wool-sorters disease. The lethal form of anthrax acquired by breathing in the bacterial spores. By contrast, getting anthrax through breaches in the skin causes cutaneous anthrax which is readily treatable and rarely lethal.
Naturally occurring or artificially placed inorganic (e.g., metal salts) or organic (e.g., proteins) contaminants on a surface or medical device before exposure to a microbicidal process.
The amount of air (approximately 3.6 L) brought into the lungs by a maximal inspiratory effort following a normal expiration; IC equals the tidal volume plus the inspiratory reserve volume. SEE lung volumes.
A measure of the elastic properties of the lung generated during inspiration; the curve is produced when the transpulmonary pressure (or distending pressure) is plotted against the lung volume during inflation.