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Community Transmission of Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1) in China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Wei Liu
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing
Tao Jiang
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing
Xiao-Feng Li
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing
Fang Tang
Affiliation:
Center for Diseases Control and Prevention of the Chinese Peoples' Armed Police Forces, Beijing
Mao-Ti Wei
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing Tianjin Key Laboratory for Biomarkers of Occupational and Environmental Hazard, Department of Epidemiology, Medical College of Chinese People's Armed Police Forces, Tianjin, China
Man Yu
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing
Hui Zhao
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing
Xue-Dong Yu
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing
Cheng-Feng Qin
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing
Wu-Chun Cao*
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing
*
State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, 20 Dong-Da Street, Fengtai District, Beijing 100071, China (caowc@ nic.bmi.ac.cn)

Abstract

Prophylaxis and treatment with oseltamivir effectively controlled a community outbreak of pandemic influenza A (H1N1) in China. The genetic makeup of strains of different generations seemed to be stable. Travel in confined settings might accelerate the transmission of pandemic influenza in a community outbreak.

Type
Concise Communications
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2010

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