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- Title
Deployable laboratory response to influenza pandemic; PCR assay field trials and comparison with reference methods.
- Authors
Inglis, Timothy J J; Merritt, Adam J; Levy, Avram; Vietheer, Patricia; Bradbury, Richard; Scholler, Adam; Chidlow, Glenys; Smith, David W
- Abstract
The influenza A/H1N1/09 pandemic spread quickly during the Southern Hemisphere winter in 2009 and reached epidemic proportions within weeks of the official WHO alert. Vulnerable population groups included indigenous Australians and remote northern population centres visited by international travellers. At the height of the Australian epidemic a large number of troops converged on a training area in northern Australia for an international exercise, raising concerns about their potential exposure to the emerging influenza threat before, during and immediately after their arrival in the area. Influenza A/H1N1/09 became the dominant seasonal variant and returned to Australia during the Southern winter the following year.
- Publication
PloS one, 2011, Vol 6, Issue 10, pe25526
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0025526