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Emerg Infect Dis. Early Introduction and Delayed Dissemination of Pandemic Influenza, Gabon
[Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal, full text: (LINK). Abstract, edited.]
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Volume 19, Number 4?April 2013
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Early Introduction and Delayed Dissemination of Pandemic Influenza, Gabon
Sonia Etenna Lekana-Douki, Augustin Mouinga-Ond?m?, Dieudonn? Nkoghe, Christian Drosten, Jan Felix Drexler, Mirdad Kazanji, and Eric M. Leroy
Author affiliations: Centre International de Recherches M?dicales de Franceville, Franceville, Gabon (S.E. Lekana-Douki, A. Mouinga-Ond?m?, D. Nkoghe, E.M. Leroy); Minist?re de la Sant? Publique, Libreville, Gabon (D. Nkoghe); Bonn Medical Centre Institute of Virology, Bonn, Germany (C. Drosten, J.F. Drexler); Institut Pasteur de Bangui, Bangui, Central African Republic (M. Kazanji); Institut de Recherche pour le D?veloppement, Montpellier, France (E.M. Leroy)
Abstract
Active surveillance in health care centers in Gabon during 2009?2011 detected 72 clinical cases of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 (pH1N1). We found that pH1N1 virus was introduced in mid-2009 but spread throughout the country in 2010. Thus, Gabon was also affected by pH1N1.
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Early Introduction and Delayed Dissemination of Pandemic Influenza, Gabon
Sonia Etenna Lekana-Douki, Augustin Mouinga-Ond?m?, Dieudonn? Nkoghe, Christian Drosten, Jan Felix Drexler, Mirdad Kazanji, and Eric M. Leroy
Author affiliations: Centre International de Recherches M?dicales de Franceville, Franceville, Gabon (S.E. Lekana-Douki, A. Mouinga-Ond?m?, D. Nkoghe, E.M. Leroy); Minist?re de la Sant? Publique, Libreville, Gabon (D. Nkoghe); Bonn Medical Centre Institute of Virology, Bonn, Germany (C. Drosten, J.F. Drexler); Institut Pasteur de Bangui, Bangui, Central African Republic (M. Kazanji); Institut de Recherche pour le D?veloppement, Montpellier, France (E.M. Leroy)
Abstract
Active surveillance in health care centers in Gabon during 2009?2011 detected 72 clinical cases of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 (pH1N1). We found that pH1N1 virus was introduced in mid-2009 but spread throughout the country in 2010. Thus, Gabon was also affected by pH1N1.
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