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Flu-related neurological complications: incidence and risk factors in children

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boxed-textNewland JG et al. (2007) Neurologic complications in children hospitalized with influenza: characteristics, incidence, and risk factors. J Pediatr 150: 306–310

Children with neurological or neuromuscular disease are at increased risk for influenza-related neurological complications and are expected to benefit from annual influenza vaccination

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  1. J Sellner is a Resident at the Department of Neurology and SL Leib is Attending Physician for Infectious Diseases, Inselspital Bern. SL Leib also heads the group for Experimental Neuroinfectiology at the Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.,

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