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Su Su, Sandra S. Chaves, Alejandro Perez, Tiffany D'Mello, Pam D. Kirley, Kimberly Yousey-Hindes, Monica M. Farley, Meghan Harris, Ruta Sharangpani, Ruth Lynfield, Craig Morin, Emily B. Hancock, Shelley Zansky, Gary E. Hollick, Brian Fowler, Christie McDonald-Hamm, Ann Thomas, Vickie Horan, Mary Lou Lindegren, William Schaffner, Andrea Price, Ananda Bandyopadhyay, Alicia M. Fry, Comparing Clinical Characteristics Between Hospitalized Adults With Laboratory-Confirmed Influenza A and B Virus Infection, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 59, Issue 2, 15 July 2014, Pages 252–255, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciu269
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We challenge the notion that influenza B is milder than influenza A by finding similar clinical characteristics between hospitalized adult influenza-cases. Among patients treated with oseltamivir, length of stay and mortality did not differ by type of virus infection.