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Pandemic virus maintains genetics
Thursday, April 22, 2010
April 22, 2010, 09:36 La Habana, Apr 22 (Prensa Latina) The causal virus of influenza A (H1N1) remains the same genetic makeup and shows a great capacity for adaptation to the environment, reported Cuban experts.
Experts from the Tropical Medicine Institute Pedro Kouri (IPK), reported that shortly after completing one year of circulation in Cuba, the pathogen has not mutated, which scientists fear could happen for the risks involved in control for physician order -care, epidemiological and virological surveillance.
The surveillance system established by the IPK allows to evaluate each day in their high-tech laboratories, the behavior of the pandemic virus by nasopharyngeal swab samples received from across the country, according to an article in the newspaper Granma reported.
The Doctor of Medical Sciences Alina Llop Hern?ndez, deputy director of IPK Microbiology and Head of National Reference Laboratory of the Ministry of Public Health, said such studies do show that in the past four weeks, the A (H1N1) moved from the circulation to other respiratory virus throughout the country.
Hence the importance of not "guard down" before the onset of any flu event, as has been warning, also taking into account the "special ability" of this pandemic virus, to associate with bacteria and create tables within hours of severe disease and endangering the lives of patients.
Among them, mainly pregnant women and new mothers, children, youth and people of all ages to submit immunosuppression, obesity, or chronic heart disease, diabetes mellitus, asthma, he said.
lma / vm
Pandemic virus maintains genetics
Thursday, April 22, 2010
April 22, 2010, 09:36 La Habana, Apr 22 (Prensa Latina) The causal virus of influenza A (H1N1) remains the same genetic makeup and shows a great capacity for adaptation to the environment, reported Cuban experts.
Experts from the Tropical Medicine Institute Pedro Kouri (IPK), reported that shortly after completing one year of circulation in Cuba, the pathogen has not mutated, which scientists fear could happen for the risks involved in control for physician order -care, epidemiological and virological surveillance.
The surveillance system established by the IPK allows to evaluate each day in their high-tech laboratories, the behavior of the pandemic virus by nasopharyngeal swab samples received from across the country, according to an article in the newspaper Granma reported.
The Doctor of Medical Sciences Alina Llop Hern?ndez, deputy director of IPK Microbiology and Head of National Reference Laboratory of the Ministry of Public Health, said such studies do show that in the past four weeks, the A (H1N1) moved from the circulation to other respiratory virus throughout the country.
Hence the importance of not "guard down" before the onset of any flu event, as has been warning, also taking into account the "special ability" of this pandemic virus, to associate with bacteria and create tables within hours of severe disease and endangering the lives of patients.
Among them, mainly pregnant women and new mothers, children, youth and people of all ages to submit immunosuppression, obesity, or chronic heart disease, diabetes mellitus, asthma, he said.
lma / vm