Pandemic Influenza (H1N1) 2009 Pneumonia: CURB-65 Score for Predicting Severity and Nasopharyngeal Sampling for Diagnosis Are Unreliable

• Siobhain Mulrennan ,

  * E-mail: Siobhain.Mulrennan@health.wa.gov.au

  Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia

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• Simone Sara Tempone,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, PathWest Laboratory Medicine Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia

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• Ivan Thian Wai Ling,

  Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia

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• Simon Hedley Williams,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, PathWest Laboratory Medicine Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia

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• Gek-Choo Gan,

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia

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• Ronan John Murray,

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, PathWest Laboratory Medicine Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia, Department of Infectious Diseases, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia

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• David John Speers

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, PathWest Laboratory Medicine Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia, Department of Infectious Diseases, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia, Department of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia

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