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The phrase "a influenza" is not correct in written English.
The correct article to use is "an" because "influenza" begins with a vowel sound.
Example: "I caught an influenza virus last winter and was bedridden for a week."
Alternatives: "an flu infection" or "an influenza virus".
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*HCoV, human coronavirus; HMPV, human metapneumovirus; HBoV, human bocavirus; RV, rhinovirus; FluV A, influenza virus A; RSV, respiratory syncytial virus; AdV, adenovirus.
Olivia was positive for Type A influenza; if another test showed H1N1, she would be moved.
About three-fourths of the viruses detected were type A influenza, and they predominate in the southern United States.
Two preventives that can also reduce symptoms of Type A influenza are amantadine (Symmetrel and generic versions) and rimantadine (Flumadine).
The deadly disease is caused by the H5N1 strain of type A influenza virus.
The infectious agents of bird flu are any of several subtypes of type A influenza virus.
Officials said the man was infected with Type A influenza, Strain H7N2, the same one that hit chicken farms in New Jersey, Maryland and Delaware this year.
The A means it belongs to a larger group known as Type A influenza viruses, which cause many of the human flu epidemics that occur every winter.
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The ratio for pandemic and seasonal-A influenza was 8.6% and 6.8% respectively.
From 1 August to 31 October 2009, clinical samples from 2967 suspected cases tested in laboratory yielded 18.2% and 23.2% pandemic and seasonal-A influenza respectively (Table 1).
A confirmed case of seasonal-A influenza was a suspected case of ILI with laboratory confirmation of influenza-A by rRT-PCR but negative for pandemic H1N1.
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