Fertility and Sterility
Volume 94, Issue 4 , Pages 1178-1180 , September 2010

2009 H1N1 influenza prevention and treatment: counseling infertility patients

  • Connie E. Alford, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Program in Reproductive and Adult Endocrinology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Connie E. Alford, M.D., Program in Reproductive and Adult Endocrinology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Building 10 Clinical Resource Center, Room 1E-3140, 10 Center Drive, MSC 1109, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1109 (FAX: 301-402-0884).
    • ,
  • Grace L. Chen, M.D., M.P.H.

      Affiliations

    • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
    • ,
  • Alicia Y. Armstrong, M.D., M.H.S.C.R.

      Affiliations

    • Program in Reproductive and Adult Endocrinology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland

Received 27 January 2010 ,Revised 21 April 2010 ,Accepted 23 April 2010.

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 C.E.A. has nothing to disclose. G.L.C. has nothing to disclose. A.Y.A. has nothing to disclose.

 Supported, in part, by the Program in Reproductive and Adult Endocrinology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

PII: S0015-0282(10)00694-1

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2010.04.056

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 94, Issue 4 , Pages 1178-1180 , September 2010

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