tetano
Editor, Senior Moderator
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2010 Jun 22. [Epub ahead of print]
Outbreak of Influenza A (2009) H1N1 among Thai Healthcare Workers: Is It Time to Integrate a Vaccination Program?
Apisarnthanarak A, Mundy LM.
From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Thammasat University Hospital, Pratumthani, Thailand (A.A.); and L. M. Mundy, LLC, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania (L.M.M.).
Abstract
We report an outbreak of influenza A (2009) H1N1 among healthcare workers in a coronary care unit in Thailand. The attack rate was 32% (7 of 32 healthcare workers) after detection of influenza A (2009) H1N1 pneumonia in the index patient. Estimated costs for the outbreak investigation and control plan were 12-fold higher than estimated costs of vaccination for healthcare workers.
PMID: 20569113 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20569113
Outbreak of Influenza A (2009) H1N1 among Thai Healthcare Workers: Is It Time to Integrate a Vaccination Program?
Apisarnthanarak A, Mundy LM.
From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Thammasat University Hospital, Pratumthani, Thailand (A.A.); and L. M. Mundy, LLC, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania (L.M.M.).
Abstract
We report an outbreak of influenza A (2009) H1N1 among healthcare workers in a coronary care unit in Thailand. The attack rate was 32% (7 of 32 healthcare workers) after detection of influenza A (2009) H1N1 pneumonia in the index patient. Estimated costs for the outbreak investigation and control plan were 12-fold higher than estimated costs of vaccination for healthcare workers.
PMID: 20569113 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20569113