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Badar N, Salman M, Aamir UB, Ansari J, Ranjha MA, Khan MA, Ikram A, Nisar N, Mushtaq N, Mirza HA. Evolutionary analysis of influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 during the pandemic and post-pandemic period in Pakistan. J Infect Public Health 2019; 13:407-413. [PMID: 31000492 DOI: 10.1016/j.jiph.2019.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2018] [Revised: 02/08/2019] [Accepted: 03/11/2019] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The first case of influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 was detected in Pakistan in June 2009. Since then, it has continued to circulate causing considerable morbidity and mortality. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the evolutionary changes in influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 viruses from 2009 to 2016 and their relevance to the current vaccine viruses. METHODS Respiratory specimens (throat or nasopharyngeal swabs) were collected from patients with influenza-like illness and severe acute respiratory illness. Samples were processed following the protocol of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Sequencing and phylogenetic analysis of Haemagglutinin and neuraminidase genes were carried out on representative isolates of Pakistan viruses. RESULTS Between January 2009 and February 2016, out of 16,024 samples analysed, 1950 (12%) were positive for influenza A. During the pandemic period (2009-2010), influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 was the dominant strain with 366 out of 808 (45%) total influenza positive cases. In the post-pandemic period (2011-2016), a total of 1078 out of 1911 (56%) cases were positive for influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 with co-circulation of different influenza A subtypes. The Pakistan A(H1N1)pdm09 viruses belonged to two genetic clades: clade 7 in the pandemic period, and clade 7 (2011) and clade 6B (2015) in the post-pandemic period. Sequence analysis of genes coding for surface glycoprotein's of Haemagglutinin and neuraminidase had a high degree of sequence similarity with corresponding genes of regional viruses circulating in South-East Asia. CONCLUSION Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 viruses from Pakistan clustered into two genetic clades, with co-circulation of some variants. Key substitutions in the receptor binding site and a few changes indicative of virulence were also detected in the post-pandemic strains. Continued monitoring of the viruses is essential for early identification of potential variants of high virulence and their relevance to current vaccine strains.
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- Nazish Badar
- Department of Virology, National Institute of Health, Chak Shahzad, Islamabad, Pakistan.
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- Department of Virology, National Institute of Health, Chak Shahzad, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Virology, National Institute of Health, Chak Shahzad, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Field Epidemiology & Disease Surveillance Unit, National Institute of Health, Chak Shahzad, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Field Epidemiology & Disease Surveillance Unit, National Institute of Health, Chak Shahzad, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Field Epidemiology & Disease Surveillance Unit, National Institute of Health, Chak Shahzad, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Executive Director, National Institute of Health, Chak Shahzad, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Virology, National Institute of Health, Chak Shahzad, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Virology, National Institute of Health, Chak Shahzad, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Virology, National Institute of Health, Chak Shahzad, Islamabad, Pakistan
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Fang S, Wang X, Dong F, Jin T, Liu G, Lu X, Peng B, Wu W, Liu H, Kong D, Tang X, Qin Y, Mei S, Xie X, He J, Ma H, Zhang R, Cheng J. Genomic characterization of influenza A (H7N9) viruses isolated in Shenzhen, Southern China, during the second epidemic wave. Arch Virol 2016; 161:2117-32. [PMID: 27169600 DOI: 10.1007/s00705-016-2872-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2015] [Accepted: 04/24/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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There were three epidemic waves of human infection with avian influenza A (H7N9) virus in 2013-2014. While many analyses of the genomic origin, evolution, and molecular characteristics of the influenza A (H7N9) virus have been performed using sequences from the first epidemic wave, genomic characterization of the virus from the second epidemic wave has been comparatively less reported. In this study, an in-depth analysis was performed with respect to the genomic characteristics of 11 H7N9 virus strains isolated from confirmed cases and four H7N9 virus strains isolated from environmental samples in Shenzhen during the second epidemic wave. Phylogenetic analysis demonstrated that six internal segments of the influenza A (H7N9) virus isolated from confirmed cases and environmental samples in Shenzhen were clustered into two different clades and that the origin of the influenza A (H7N9) virus isolated from confirmed cases in Shenzhen was different from that of viruses isolated during the first wave. In addition, H9N2 viruses, which were prevalent in southern China, played an important role in the reassortment of the influenza A (H7N9) virus isolated in Shenzhen. HA-R47K and -T122A, PB2-V139I, PB1-I397M, and NS1-T216P were the signature amino acids of the influenza A (H7N9) virus isolated from confirmed cases in Shenzhen. We found that the HA, NA, M, and PA genes of the A(H7N9) viruses underwent positive selection in the human population. Therefore, enhanced surveillance should be carried out to determine the origin and mode of transmission of the novel influenza A (H7N9) virus and to facilitate the formulation of effective policies for prevention and containment of a human infection epidemics.
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- Shisong Fang
- Major Infectious Disease Control Key Laboratory, Key Reference Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosafety, Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, No. 8, Longyuan Road, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- Major Infectious Disease Control Key Laboratory, Key Reference Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosafety, Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, No. 8, Longyuan Road, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- College of Medicine, Jinan University, 601 Huangpu Avenue West, Guangzhou, China
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518083, China
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518083, China
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- Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, No. 8, Longyuan Road, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- Major Infectious Disease Control Key Laboratory, Key Reference Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosafety, Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, No. 8, Longyuan Road, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- Major Infectious Disease Control Key Laboratory, Key Reference Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosafety, Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, No. 8, Longyuan Road, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- Major Infectious Disease Control Key Laboratory, Key Reference Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosafety, Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, No. 8, Longyuan Road, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, No. 8, Longyuan Road, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, No. 8, Longyuan Road, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, No. 8, Longyuan Road, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, No. 8, Longyuan Road, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, No. 8, Longyuan Road, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, No. 8, Longyuan Road, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, No. 8, Longyuan Road, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- Major Infectious Disease Control Key Laboratory, Key Reference Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosafety, Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, No. 8, Longyuan Road, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
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- Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, No. 8, Longyuan Road, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
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Adaptive evolution of a novel avian-origin influenza A/H7N9 virus. Genomics 2014; 104:545-53. [PMID: 25449177 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2014.10.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2014] [Revised: 10/25/2014] [Accepted: 10/29/2014] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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In China, the recent outbreak of novel influenza A/H7N9 virus has been assumed to be severe, and it may possibly turn brutal in the near future. In order to develop highly protective vaccines and drugs for the A/H7N9 virus, it is critical to find out the selection pressure of each amino acid site. In the present study, six different statistical methods consisting of four independent codon-based maximum likelihood (CML) methods, one hierarchical Bayesian (HB) method and one branch-site (BS) method, were employed to determine if each amino acid site of A/H7N9 virus is under natural selection pressure. Functions for both positively and negatively selected sites were inferred by annotating these sites with experimentally verified amino acid sites. Comprehensively, the single amino acid site 627 of PB2 protein was inferred as positively selected and it function was identified as a T-cell epitope (TCE). Among the 26 negatively selected amino acid sites of PB2, PB1, PA, HA, NP, NA, M1 and NS2 proteins, only 16 amino acid sites were identified to be involved in TCEs. In addition, 7 amino acid sites including, 608 and 609 of PA, 480 of NP, and 24, 25, 109 and 205 of M1, were identified to be involved in both B-cell epitopes (BCEs) and TCEs. Conversely, the function of positions 62 of PA, and, 43 and 113 of HA was unknown. In conclusion, the seven amino acid sites engaged in both BCEs and TCEs were identified as highly suitable targets, as these sites will be predicted to play a principal role in inducing strong humoral and cellular immune responses against A/H7N9 virus.
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Gíria M, Rebelo de Andrade H. Genetic evolution of PB1 in the zoonotic transmission of influenza A(H1) virus. INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION 2014; 27:234-43. [DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2014.07.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2014] [Revised: 07/16/2014] [Accepted: 07/21/2014] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Genomic analysis of pandemic and post-pandemic influenza A pH1N1 viruses isolated in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Arch Virol 2013; 159:621-30. [PMID: 24114147 DOI: 10.1007/s00705-013-1855-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2013] [Accepted: 09/14/2013] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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During the 2009 influenza A pH1N1 pandemics in Brazil, the state that was most affected was Rio Grande do Sul (RS), with over 3,000 confirmed cases, including 298 deaths. While no cases were confirmed in 2010, 103 infections with 14 deaths by pH1N1 were reported in 2011. Genomic analysis of the circulating viruses is fundamental for understanding viral evolution and supporting vaccine development against these pathogens. This study investigated whole genomes of six pH1N1 virus isolates from pandemic and post-pandemic periods in RS, Brazil. Phylogenetic analysis using the concatenated genome segments demonstrated that at least two lineages of the virus co-circulated in RS during the 2009 pandemic period. Moreover, our analysis showed that the post-pandemic pH1N1 virus from 2011 constitutes a distinct clade whose ancestor belongs to clade 7. All six isolates contained amino acid substitutions in their proteins when compared to the archetype strains California/04/2009 and California/07/2009. The 2011 isolates contained more amino acid substitutions, and most of their genes were under purifying selection. Based on the amino acid substitutions in HA epitopes from strains isolated in RS, Brazil, in silico analysis predicted a decrease in vaccine efficacy against post-pandemic strains (median 31.562 %) in relation to pandemic ones (median 39.735 %).
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Arunachalam R, Paulkumar K, Annadurai G. Genetic ancestor of external antigens of pandemic influenza A/H1N1 virus. Interdiscip Sci 2013; 4:282-90. [DOI: 10.1007/s12539-012-0136-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2011] [Revised: 03/05/2012] [Accepted: 08/29/2012] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Chen SY, Chen YC, Chiang WC, Kung HC, King CC, Lai MS, Chie WC, Chen SC, Chen WJ, Chang SC. Field performance of clinical case definitions for influenza screening during the 2009 pandemic. Am J Emerg Med 2012; 30:1796-803. [PMID: 22633701 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2012.02.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2012] [Revised: 02/02/2012] [Accepted: 02/27/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022] Open
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PURPOSE The aim of this study was to assess the performance of 3 different influenza-like illness (ILI) case definitions, adopted by the European (European-CDC), USA (USA-CDC), and Taiwan Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (Taiwan-CDC), as screening tools for influenza during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. METHODS From August 15 to 30, 2009, all emergency department patients with clinical symptoms or at epidemiologic risk for influenza were enrolled in an observational cohort study. Influenza diagnosis was established by positive rapid influenza diagnostic test or virus isolation. Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value of the European-, USA, and Taiwan-CDC ILI case definitions for screening were determined. RESULTS A total of 870 patients were screened during the study period. Rapid influenza diagnostic test was positive in 315 patients, 273 (85.6%) of whom had fever duration less than 72 hours. Virus isolation identified 4 more patients with influenza A initially negative by rapid influenza diagnostic test. The mean (SD) age of these 319 patients was 24.3 (18.1) years. Of the 870 screened patients, 670 (77.0%), 476 (54.7%), and 325 (37.4%) met the European-, USA-, and Taiwan-CDC ILI case definition, respectively. Screening sensitivity was 95%, 77.7%, and 57.7% and specificity was 33.4%, 58.6%, and 74.4%, respectively. Differences in sensitivity and specificity between any 2 of the 3 groups were statistically significant (P < .05). CONCLUSION First-line physicians should recognize the advantage and limitation of different ILI case definitions in influenza screening, especially confronted by pandemic or highly pathogenic avian influenza in the future.
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- Shey-Ying Chen
- Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, College of Medicine, Taipei 100, Taiwan.
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Thomson CA, Wang Y, Jackson LM, Olson M, Wang W, Liavonchanka A, Keleta L, Silva V, Diederich S, Jones RB, Gubbay J, Pasick J, Petric M, Jean F, Allen VG, Brown EG, Rini JM, Schrader JW. Pandemic H1N1 Influenza Infection and Vaccination in Humans Induces Cross-Protective Antibodies that Target the Hemagglutinin Stem. Front Immunol 2012; 3:87. [PMID: 22586427 PMCID: PMC3347682 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2012.00087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2012] [Accepted: 04/04/2012] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Most monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) generated from humans infected or vaccinated with the 2009 pandemic H1N1 (pdmH1N1) influenza virus targeted the hemagglutinin (HA) stem. These anti-HA stem mAbs mostly used IGHV1-69 and bound readily to epitopes on the conventional seasonal influenza and pdmH1N1 vaccines. The anti-HA stem mAbs neutralized pdmH1N1, seasonal influenza H1N1 and avian H5N1 influenza viruses by inhibiting HA-mediated fusion of membranes and protected against and treated heterologous lethal infections in mice with H5N1 influenza virus. This demonstrated that therapeutic mAbs could be generated a few months after the new virus emerged. Human immunization with the pdmH1N1 vaccine induced circulating antibodies that when passively transferred, protected mice from lethal, heterologous H5N1 influenza infections. We observed that the dominant heterosubtypic antibody response against the HA stem correlated with the relative absence of memory B cells against the HA head of pdmH1N1, thus enabling the rare heterosubtypic memory B cells induced by seasonal influenza and specific for conserved sites on the HA stem to compete for T-cell help. These results support the notion that broadly protective antibodies against influenza would be induced by successive vaccination with conventional influenza vaccines based on subtypes of HA in viruses not circulating in humans.
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- C A Thomson
- The Biomedical Research Centre, University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Mir MA, Lal RB, Sullender W, Singh Y, Garten R, Krishnan A, Broor S. Genetic diversity of HA1 domain of hemagglutinin gene of pandemic influenza H1N1pdm09 viruses in New Delhi, India. J Med Virol 2012; 84:386-93. [DOI: 10.1002/jmv.23205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Eshima N, Tokumaru O, Hara S, Bacal K, Korematsu S, Tabata M, Karukaya S, Yasui Y, Okabe N, Matsuishi T. Sex- and age-related differences in morbidity rates of 2009 pandemic influenza A H1N1 virus of swine origin in Japan. PLoS One 2011; 6:e19409. [PMID: 21559366 PMCID: PMC3084848 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2010] [Accepted: 04/04/2011] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The objective of the present study was to determine whether the morbidity rates of the 2009 pandemic influenza A H1N1 virus (pdmH1N1) varied by age and/or sex. METHODS AND FINDINGS Retrospective analysis of 2,024,367 cases of pdmH1N1 was performed using the national surveillance data from influenza sentinel points in Japan. The male-to-female morbidity ratios (M/F ratios) in nineteen age groups were estimated as the primary outcome. The M/F ratios for pdmH1N1 influenza were: >1 in age groups <20 years and ≥80 years (p<0.001); <1 in age groups 20-79 years (p<0.001). This data suggests that males <20 years of age may be more likely to suffer from pdmH1N1 influenza than females in the same age categories. When the infection pattern for pdmH1N1 was compared with that of seasonal influenza outbreaks between 2000 and 2008, the M/F ratio for pdmH1N1 influenza was higher in ages 3-29 years and lower in ages 40-79 years. Because the present study was based on the national surveillance, it was impossible to estimate the morbidity rate for the Japanese population. It is also likely that the data did not capture asymptomatic or mild infections. CONCLUSIONS Although exposure to the pdmH1N1 virus is assumed to be similar in both boys and girls, M/F ratios were >1 in those younger than 20 years. The subsequent reversal of the M/F ratio in the adult generation could be due to several possibilities, including: greater immunity among adult males, more asymptomatic infections among males, less reporting of illness by males, or differences in exposure to the virus and probability of visiting a clinic. These results suggest that the infection and virulence patterns of pdmH1N1 are more complex than previously considered.
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- Nobuoki Eshima
- Department of Biostatistics, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, Yufu City, Oita, Japan
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- Department of Neurophysiology, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, Yufu City, Oita, Japan
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- The Yomiuri Shimbun Osaka (Newspaper), Osaka, Japan
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- Medical Programme Directorate, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Pediatrics, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, Yufu City, Oita, Japan
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- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai City, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume University, Kurume City, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
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- Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume University, Kurume City, Fukuoka, Japan
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Please cite this paper as: Neumann G, Kawaoka Y. (2011) The first influenza pandemic of the new millennium. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses DOI: 10.1111/j.1750‐2659.2011.00202.x. In the spring of 2009, a novel influenza A virus of the H1N1 subtype emerged that transmitted efficiently among humans; by June of 2009, the outbreak reached pandemic status. The pandemic virus possesses six viral RNA segments from so‐called triple reassortant swine viruses that emerged in North American pig populations in the late 1990s and two viral RNA segments from Eurasian avian‐like swine influenza viruses. Most human infections with the virus have been mild; however, severe and fatal infections occurred among certain risk groups, but also among those without any known risk factors. Here, we summarize the evolutionary, epidemiological, clinical, and molecular findings on the pandemic virus. We also discuss the arsenal of antiviral compounds and vaccines available to prevent and treat infections with the virus.
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- Gabriele Neumann
- Influenza Research Institute, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53711, USA
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Bhoumik P, Hughes AL. Reassortment of ancient neuraminidase and recent hemagglutinin in pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus. Emerg Infect Dis 2010; 16:1748-50. [PMID: 21029534 PMCID: PMC3294508 DOI: 10.3201/eid1611.100361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Sequence analyses show that the outbreak of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 resulted from the spread of a recently derived hemagglutinin through a population of ancient and more diverse neuraminidase segments. This pattern implies reassortment and suggests that the novel form of hemagglutinin conferred a selective advantage.
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- Priyasma Bhoumik
- University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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