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  • Influenza Other Respir Viruses . Influenza A (H3) illness and viral aerosol shedding from symptomatic naturally infected and experimentally infected cases


    Influenza Other Respir Viruses


    . 2020 Jul 23.
    doi: 10.1111/irv.12790. Online ahead of print.
    Influenza A (H3) illness and viral aerosol shedding from symptomatic naturally infected and experimentally infected cases


    Paul Jacob Bueno de Mesquita 1 , Jonathan Nguyen-Van-Tam 2 , Ben Killingley 2 , Joanne Enstone 2 , Robert Lambkin-Williams 3 , Anthony S Gilbert 3 , Alexander Mann 3 , John Forni 3 , Jing Yan 1 , Jovan Pantelic 1 , Michael L Grantham 1 , Donald K Milton 1



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    Abstract

    Background: It has long been known that nasal inoculation with influenza A virus produces asymptomatic to febrile infections. Uncertainty persists about whether these infections are sufficiently similar to natural infections for studying human-to-human transmission.
    Methods: We compared influenza A viral aerosol shedding from volunteers nasally inoculated with A/Wisconsin/2005 (H3N2) and college community adults naturally infected with influenza A/H3N2 (2012-2013), selected for influenza-like illness with objectively measured fever or a positive Quidel QuickVue A&B test. Propensity scores were used to control for differences in symptom presentation observed between experimentally and naturally infected groups.
    Results: Eleven (28%) experimental and 71 (86%) natural cases shed into fine particle aerosols (P < .001). The geometric mean (geometric standard deviation) for viral positive fine aerosol samples from experimental and natural cases was 5.1E + 3 (4.72) and 3.9E + 4 (15.12) RNA copies/half hour, respectively. The 95th percentile shedding rate was 2.4 log10 greater for naturally infected cases (1.4E + 07 vs 7.4E + 04). Certain influenza-like illness-related symptoms were associated with viral aerosol shedding. The almost complete lack of symptom severity distributional overlap between groups did not support propensity score-adjusted shedding comparisons.
    Conclusions: Due to selection bias, the natural and experimental infections had limited symptom severity distributional overlap precluding valid, propensity score-adjusted comparison. Relative to the symptomatic naturally infected cases, where high aerosol shedders were found, experimental cases did not produce high aerosol shedders. Studying the frequency of aerosol shedding at the highest observed levels in natural infections without selection on symptoms or fever would support helpful comparisons.

    Keywords: Viral aerosols; experimental inoculation; human challenge model; influenza symptomatology; influenza transmission; propensity scores; viral shedding.

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