The environmental deposition of influenza virus from patients infected with influenza A(H1N1)pdm09: Implications for infection prevention and control

• Main Authors: Benjamin Killingley (Author), Jane Greatorex (Author), Paul Digard (Author), Helen Wise (Author), Fayna Garcia (Author), Harsha Varsani (Author), Simon Cauchemez (Author), Joanne E. Enstone (Author), Andrew Hayward (Author), Martin D. Curran (Author), Robert C. Read (Author), Wei S. Lim (Author), Karl G. Nicholson (Author), Jonathan S. Nguyen- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2016-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary: In a multi-center, prospective, observational study over two influenza seasons, we sought to quantify and correlate the amount of virus recovered from the nares of infected subjects with that recovered from their immediate environment in community and hospital settings. We recorded the symp...