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Challenges for the laboratory before and during an influenza pandemic.

Laboratory tests that reliably confirm infection with a novel influenza strain are a major component of pandemic planning. Combined nose and throat swabs are the most practical respiratory tract sample to safely obtain from patients. As nucleic acid tests are sensitive, specific and rapid, they will be the diagnostic test of choice during a pandemic. Virus isolation (in laboratories with Physic...

Monitoring vaccine safety during an influenza pandemic.

In the event that a vaccine is available during an influenza pandemic, vaccine safety monitoring will occur as part of comprehensive public health surveillance of the vaccination campaign. Though inactivated influenza vaccines have been widely used in the United States and much is known about their safety profile, attention will need to be paid to both common self-limited adverse reactions and ...

Resource Allocation during an Influenza Pandemic

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Pandemic flu. Clinical management of patients with an influenza-like illness during an influenza pandemic.

estimation of the serial interval for pandemic influenza (ph1n1) in the most southern province of argentina.

a retrospective cohort study, in the context of household transmission, to estimate the serial interval (si) of ph1n1 influenza in the island of tierra del fuego was carried out.we collected data from the epidemiological surveillance system during disease outbreak in ushuaia and rio grande, the two main cities of the southernmost province of argentina. only the records of patients and household...