The third wave: H7N9 endemic reassortant viruses and patient clusters

Yisu Liu, Stéphane G. Paquette, Li Zhang, Alberto J. Leon, Weidong Liu, Wu Xiuming, Linxi Huang, Suwu Wu, Pengzhou Lin, Weihong Chen, Xibin Fang, Tiansheng Zeng, Nikki Kelvin, Amber Farooqui, David J. Kelvin

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Abstract

Southern China experienced few cases of H7N9 during the first wave of human infections in the spring of 2013. The second and now the third waves of H7N9 infections have been localized mostly in Southern China with the Guangdong province an epicenter for the generation of novel H7N9 reassortants. Clusters of human infections show human-to-human transmission to be a rare but well-documented event. A recent cluster of infections involving hospital health care workers stresses the importance of care givers utilizing personal protective equipment in treating H7N9 infected or suspected patients.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)122-127
Number of pages6
JournalJournal of Infection in Developing Countries
Volume9
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes

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© 2015 Liu et al.

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Parasitology
  • Microbiology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Virology

PubMed: MeSH publication types

  • Journal Article
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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