But a new report from Hong Kong, which conducts the world's most comprehensive surveillance of influenza viruses in pigs, has described the first instance of a swine virus picking up a gene from the novel H1N1 circulating in humans.
Here, we describe a method that fulfills the demand for easy and reliable, but in addition at the same time broad and comprehensive sequencing of influenza A viruses that goes far beyond the previously reported specialized H5N1 sequencing approach.
Preparedness should therefore ensure the availability of timely and comprehensive management of influenza during pregnancy.
These data provide a comprehensive view of influenza vaccine supply ordering and distribution patterns in the United States in late 2005.
This study offers a comprehensive description of influenza A/H1N1v pattern of infection among Belgian hospitalized children, in the light of recent publications from other continents.
The ability of System laboratories to rapidly increase to high-volume comprehensive diagnostics, including influenza A subtyping, provided key epidemiologic information for local and state public health departments.
It seems inevitable that we would have to settle for phylogeny independent methods at current processor speeds, when doing comprehensive analyses of influenza genomic data.
Even when aggressively pursued, these efforts were not always timely or comprehensive, and avian influenza became endemic among birds in many parts of Asia and has now spread to Europe and Africa.
Moreover, additional aspects need to be taken into consideration such as identification of proper assay-specific cutoffs and internal/external controls, optimization of pseudotype titres, and availability of a more comprehensive library of influenza pseudotypes.
Our study aimed to offer a comprehensive description of influenza A/H1N1v infection in children, in the light of other recently published data from countries experiencing different health care systems [ 9- 12].
