Swine outbreak of pandemic influenza A virus on a canadian research farm supports human-to-swine transmission

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 10-18

  Forgie, Sarah E ^a   Keenliside, Julia ^b,c   Wilkinson, Craig ^a   Webby, Richard ^g   Lu, Patricia ^b   Sorensen, Ole ^b   Fonseca, Kevin ^d   Barman, Subrata ^g   Rubrum, Adam ^g   Stigger, Evelyn ^g   Marrie, Thomas J ^e   Marshall, Frank ^c   Spady, Donald W ^a   Hu, Jia ^a   Loeb, Mark ^f   Russell, Margaret L ^c   Babiuk, Lorne A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b ALBERTA AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d PROVINCIAL LABORATORY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH   (Canada)

^e DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; HEMAGGLUTININ; NUCLEOPROTEIN;

2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; LIVESTOCK; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGY; SWINE; SYMPTOM; VACCINATION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; ALBERTA; ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 79951660724     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciq030     Document Type: Article

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