Giuseppe
Emeritus
[Source: The Lancet, full text: (LINK). Extract, edited.]
On March 31, 2013, the China Health and Planning Commission notified WHO of three human infections in Shanghai and Anhui with a novel influenza virus characterised as avian influenza A H7N9 (illness onset between Feb 19 and March 15, 2013). Genetic characterisation 2 showed that this virus resulted from recombination of genes between three parent viruses noted in Asia in poultry and wild birds. The severity of disease was remarkable, as was the fact that patients were from towns located 400 km apart ...
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a Virology Division, Laboratory for Infectious Diseases Research, Diagnosis and Screening, Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven 3720BA, Netherlands; b Department of Viroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands; c Department of Medical Microbiology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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The Lancet, Early Online Publication, 26 April 2013
doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60936-8
Avian influenza A H7N9 in Zhejiang, China
Original Text
Marion Koopmans a b, Menno D de Jong c
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doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60936-8
Avian influenza A H7N9 in Zhejiang, China
Original Text
Marion Koopmans a b, Menno D de Jong c
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On March 31, 2013, the China Health and Planning Commission notified WHO of three human infections in Shanghai and Anhui with a novel influenza virus characterised as avian influenza A H7N9 (illness onset between Feb 19 and March 15, 2013). Genetic characterisation 2 showed that this virus resulted from recombination of genes between three parent viruses noted in Asia in poultry and wild birds. The severity of disease was remarkable, as was the fact that patients were from towns located 400 km apart ...
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a Virology Division, Laboratory for Infectious Diseases Research, Diagnosis and Screening, Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven 3720BA, Netherlands; b Department of Viroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands; c Department of Medical Microbiology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands