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Influenza A: infection and reinfection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2009

J. R. Davies ,
E. A. Grilli  and
A. J. Smith
J. R. Davies
Affiliation:
Influenza Research Unit, Public Health Laboratory, St Luke's Hospital, Guildford, Surrey GU1 3NT
E. A. Grilli
Affiliation:
Influenza Research Unit, Public Health Laboratory, St Luke's Hospital, Guildford, Surrey GU1 3NT
A. J. Smith
Affiliation:
Influenza Research Unit, Public Health Laboratory, St Luke's Hospital, Guildford, Surrey GU1 3NT
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Twenty-nine boys in a boarding school were present during a large outbreak of influenza A H1N1 in 1978 when 27 were infected, 21 with clinical influenza. These boys were bled annually and were still in school when another outbreak of influenza A H1N1 occurred in 1983. Twentythree of them were reinfected but only nine had symptoms. These results are compared with the experience of a similar group of boys in the early years of the influenza A H3N2 era.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 92 , Issue 1 , February 1984 , pp. 125 - 127
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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