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Microbiol Immunol. 2011 Jul;55(7):514-517. doi: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2011.00344.x.
Virological surveillance of human influenza in Indonesia, October 2008-March 2010.
Yamaoka M, Palilingan JF, Wibisono J, Yudhawati R, Nidom RV, Alamudi MY, Ginting TE, Makino A, Nidom CA, Shinya K, Kawaoka Y.
Source
Center for Infectious Diseases, Graduate School of Medicine Division of Zoonosis, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Disease, Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe University, 7-5-1, Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo Division of Virology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1, Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan International Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1, Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan ERATO Infection-Induced Host Responses Project, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Saitama, Japan Collaborating Research Center, Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Tropical Disease Centre, Airlangga University, Surabaya 60115 Department of Pulmonology, Dr Soetomo Teaching Hospital, Surabaya 60286 Influenza Research Institute, Department of Pathological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Abstract
Despite the high prevalence of highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza A viruses in Indonesia, epidemiology information on seasonal human influenza is lacking. The present authors, therefore, conducted virologic surveillance in Surabaya, East Java from October 2008 to March 2010. Influenza viruses, including pandemic (H1N1) 2009 viruses, were isolated from 71 of 635 individuals tested. Seasonal influenza peaked in the rainy season. Compared with seasonal influenza viruses, pandemic 2009 viruses were isolated from younger patients with milder symptoms. Given the high prevalence of H5N1 infections in humans, continued influenza surveillance is essential for pandemic preparedness.
? 2011 The Societies and Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd.
PMID:
21707740
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21707740
Virological surveillance of human influenza in Indonesia, October 2008-March 2010.
Yamaoka M, Palilingan JF, Wibisono J, Yudhawati R, Nidom RV, Alamudi MY, Ginting TE, Makino A, Nidom CA, Shinya K, Kawaoka Y.
Source
Center for Infectious Diseases, Graduate School of Medicine Division of Zoonosis, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Disease, Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe University, 7-5-1, Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo Division of Virology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1, Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan International Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1, Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan ERATO Infection-Induced Host Responses Project, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Saitama, Japan Collaborating Research Center, Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Tropical Disease Centre, Airlangga University, Surabaya 60115 Department of Pulmonology, Dr Soetomo Teaching Hospital, Surabaya 60286 Influenza Research Institute, Department of Pathological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Abstract
Despite the high prevalence of highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza A viruses in Indonesia, epidemiology information on seasonal human influenza is lacking. The present authors, therefore, conducted virologic surveillance in Surabaya, East Java from October 2008 to March 2010. Influenza viruses, including pandemic (H1N1) 2009 viruses, were isolated from 71 of 635 individuals tested. Seasonal influenza peaked in the rainy season. Compared with seasonal influenza viruses, pandemic 2009 viruses were isolated from younger patients with milder symptoms. Given the high prevalence of H5N1 infections in humans, continued influenza surveillance is essential for pandemic preparedness.
? 2011 The Societies and Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd.
PMID:
21707740
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21707740