| Autor: |
Colin Hawkins, Jon Green, Colin Campbell, RJ Harris, Roland L. Salmon, Chikwe Ihekweazu, Maria Zambon, Tim Wreghitt, Mary E. Chamberland, Nick Andrews, John Watson, Gillian Smith, George Kafatos, Estelle McLean, Edward Wynne-Evans, Jim McMenamin, B. Smyth, Isabel Oliver, Joanna Ellis, Peter J White, Richard Pebody, Nick Phin, Sam Bracebridge, Jonathan S. Nguyen-Van-Tam |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2011 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Emerging Infectious Diseases |
| ISSN: |
1080-6059
1080-6040 |
| Popis: |
TOC Summary: Early treatment of primary case-patients and prophylaxis of household contacts provides effective protection.
The United Kingdom implemented a containment strategy for pandemic (H1N1) 2009 through administering antiviral agents (AVs) to patients and their close contacts. This observational household cohort study describes the effect of AVs on household transmission. We followed 285 confirmed primary cases in 259 households with 761 contacts. At 2 weeks, the confirmed secondary attack rate (SAR) was 8.1% (62/761) and significantly higher in persons 50 years of age (18.9% vs. 1.2%, p |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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