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Laboratory-Confirmed Influenza B Infection in Immunized Long-Term Care Facility Residents Receiving Oseltamivir Prophylaxis in Ontario

Part of: BARRY FARR AWARD RECIPIENTS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Anne-Luise Winter ,
Adriana Peci ,
AliReza Eshaghi ,
Michelle Baird ,
Nader Memari ,
Erik Kristjanson ,
Elizabeth Balogun ,
Rachel R. Higgins ,
Aimin Li  and
David J. Farrell
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Anne-Luise Winter*
Affiliation:
Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Adriana Peci
Affiliation:
Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
AliReza Eshaghi
Affiliation:
Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Michelle Baird
Affiliation:
City of Hamilton Public Health Services, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Nader Memari
Affiliation:
Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Erik Kristjanson
Affiliation:
Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Elizabeth Balogun
Affiliation:
Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Rachel R. Higgins
Affiliation:
Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Aimin Li
Affiliation:
Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
David J. Farrell
Affiliation:
Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion, Toronto, Ontario, Canada University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jonathan B. Gubbay
Affiliation:
Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion, Toronto, Ontario, Canada University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
*
Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion, 480 University Avenue, 3rd Floor, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1V2, Canada (anne-luise.winter@oahpp.ca)
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Abstract

We report on an influenza B outbreak in an Ontario long-term care facility in which 2 immunized residents receiving oseltamivir prophylaxis for at least 5 days developed laboratory-confirmed influenza B infection. All isolates were tested for the most common oseltamivir resistance, and none of them had resistance identified.

Type
Concise Communication
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 34 , Issue 11 , November 2013 , pp. 1225 - 1228
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2013

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