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SUBMITTER: Wang ZG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4986578 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Zhao-Guo ZG Yi Ying Y Yang Ting-Ting TT Liu Xiao-Lin XL Jiang Fa-Chun FC Wang Zhi-Yu ZY Chen Ji-Ming JM
Influenza and other respiratory viruses 20100824 1
<h4>Background</h4>In April, 2009, a new influenza pandemic caused by a swine-origin H1N1 subtype influenza virus was imminent. We thereby carried out an emergency surveillance study in a Chinese city of Qingdao.<h4>Methods</h4>Pharyngeal swab samples were collected from four targeted groups and tested by reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction. Each laboratory-confirmed pandemic H1N1 case or cluster was investigated, and the hemagglutinin genes of some of the viruses were sequenced and ...[more]