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Molecular characterization of a nosocomial outbreak of influenza B virus in an acute care hospital setting.
The Journal of hospital infection - 1 Jan 2019
Sansone M, Wiman Å, Karlberg M L, Brytting M, Bohlin L, Andersson L-M, Westin J, Nordén R
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AIM: To describe a hospital outbreak of influenza B virus (InfB) infection during season 2015/2016 by combining clinical and epidemiological data with molecular methods. METHODS: Twenty patients diagnosed with InfB from a hospital outbreak over a four-week-period were included. Nasopharyngeal samples (NPS) positive for InfB by multiplex real-time polymerase chain reaction were sent for lineage typing and whole...
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