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Editor, Senior Moderator
Emerg Infect Dis. 2010 Sep;16(9):1366-72.
Influenza in refugees on the Thailand-myanmar border, may-october 2009.
Turner P, Turner CL, Watthanaworawit W, Carrara VI, Kapella BK, Painter J, Nosten FH.
Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, Mae Sot, Thailand (P. Turner, C.L. Turner, W. Watthanaworawit, V.I. Carrara, F.H. Nosten); Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Bangkok, Thailand (P. Turner, C.L. Turner, W. Watthanaworawit, V.I. Carrara, F.H. Nosten); University of Oxford, Oxford, UK (P. Turner, C.L. Turner, F.H. Nosten); and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (B.K. Kapella, J. Painter).
Abstract
We describe the epidemiology of influenza virus infections in refugees in a camp in rural Southeast Asia during May-October 2009, the first 6 months after identification of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 in Thailand. Influenza A viruses were detected in 20% of patients who had influenza-like illness and in 23% of those who had clinical pneumonia. Seasonal influenza A (H1N1) was the predominant virus circulating during weeks 26-33 (June 25-August 29) and was subsequently replaced by the pandemic strain. A review of passive surveillance for acute respiratory infection did not show an increase in acute respiratory tract infection incidence associated with the arrival of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 in the camp.
PMID: 20735919 [PubMed - in process]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20735919
Influenza in refugees on the Thailand-myanmar border, may-october 2009.
Turner P, Turner CL, Watthanaworawit W, Carrara VI, Kapella BK, Painter J, Nosten FH.
Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, Mae Sot, Thailand (P. Turner, C.L. Turner, W. Watthanaworawit, V.I. Carrara, F.H. Nosten); Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Bangkok, Thailand (P. Turner, C.L. Turner, W. Watthanaworawit, V.I. Carrara, F.H. Nosten); University of Oxford, Oxford, UK (P. Turner, C.L. Turner, F.H. Nosten); and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (B.K. Kapella, J. Painter).
Abstract
We describe the epidemiology of influenza virus infections in refugees in a camp in rural Southeast Asia during May-October 2009, the first 6 months after identification of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 in Thailand. Influenza A viruses were detected in 20% of patients who had influenza-like illness and in 23% of those who had clinical pneumonia. Seasonal influenza A (H1N1) was the predominant virus circulating during weeks 26-33 (June 25-August 29) and was subsequently replaced by the pandemic strain. A review of passive surveillance for acute respiratory infection did not show an increase in acute respiratory tract infection incidence associated with the arrival of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 in the camp.
PMID: 20735919 [PubMed - in process]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20735919