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Of the 104 symptomatic household contacts, infectious illness was diagnosed in 62 (59.6%).
Appropriate targeting of the program is critical and asymptomatic household contacts might not be a prudent choice as compared with symptomatic household and neighborhood contacts.
In retrospect, a better design would have been to collect specimens from all 73 symptomatic household members on day 8, irrespective of the initial pH1N1 PCR result.
We asked participants of the MH group to always use the provided hand rub after direct contact with the index patient (or other symptomatic household members), after having touched household items being used by the index patients and/or other symptomatic household contacts, as well as after coughing/sneezing, before meals, before preparing meals and when returning home.
40 Yadav et al found that ACF programs targeting household and neighborhood contacts in Cambodia was highly cost-effective and stressed the importance of selecting the right target of the program, especially among symptomatic household and neighborhood contacts.
Furthermore, symptomatic household contacts may have reasonably assumed that they were infected with pandemic (H1N1) 2009 given their proximity to a confirmed case-patient and may not have considered confirmation necessary.
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In our virologic investigations, vesivirus RNA was detected in 64.8% (57/88) of dogs housed in 4 shelters but in only 1.1% (2/183) and 3.5% (4/114) of symptomatic and asymptomatic household dogs, respectively.
They recorded the date of onset of symptomatic ILIs in household members from between 14 days prior to the study participant's illness through to the day of diary completion.
If the respondent was willing to share information, details on the number of chest symptomatics in the household if any, were elicited after getting their written consent.
The frequency of atypical EPEC in symptomatic patients from households with real and sham water treatment units was similar (42 [12.3%] of 341 and 47 [13.2%] of 355, respectively).
The ring is not necessarily a contiguous geographic area but captures a social network of individuals and locations that may include dwellings or workplaces further afield, where the index patient spent time while symptomatic, or the households of individuals who had contact with the patient during the illness or after his or her death.
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