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SUBMITTER: van den Dool C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2866379 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
van den Dool Carline C Hak Eelko E Bonten Marc J M MJ Wallinga Jacco J
Emerging infectious diseases 20091001 10
Prophylaxis with neuraminidase inhibitors is important for controlling seasonal influenza outbreaks in long-term care settings. We used a stochastic individual-based model that simulates influenza virus transmission in a long-term care nursing home department to study the protection offered to patients by different strategies of prophylaxis with oseltamivir and determined the effect of emerging resistance. Without resistance, postexposure and continuous prophylaxis reduced the patient infection ...[more]