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Emergence of influenza A (H1N1)pdm09 genogroup 6B and drug resistant virus, India, January to May 2015.
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin - 1 Jan 2016
Parida Manmohan, Dash Paban Kumar, Kumar Jyoti S, Joshi Gaurav, Tandel Kundan, Sharma Shashi, Srivastava Ambuj, Agarwal Ankita, Saha Amrita, Saraswat Shweta, Karothia Divyanshi, Malviya Vatsala
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To investigate the aetiology of the 2015 A(H1N1)pdm09 influenza outbreak in India, 1,083 nasopharyngeal swabs from suspect patients were screened for influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 in the state of Madhya Pradesh. Of 412 positive specimens, six were further characterised by phylogenetic analysis of haemagglutinin (HA) sequences revealing that they belonged to genogroup 6B. A new mutation (E164G) was observed in HA2 of two...
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