Cases of influenza A(H1N1)v reported in Turkey, May-July 2009.
Following the declaration by the World Health Organization (WHO) of human cases of infection with a new influenza A(H1N1)v virus of swine origin, the Turkish Ministry of Health launched a case-based reporting of influenza A(H1N1)v throughout the country on 27 April 2009. The index case was detected on 15 May 2009. As of 17 July 2009 the number of laboratory-confirmed cases of influenza A(H1N1)v totaled 128 of whom 38 were indigenous cases.
Ciblak
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Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, National Influenza Reference Laboratory, Istanbul, Turkey. ciblakm@yahoo.com
Albayrak
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Odabas
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Basak Altas
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Kanturvardar
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Hasoksuz
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Sucakli
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Korukluoglu
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Bal
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Ertek
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Badur
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D053118:Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype / Q000472:pathogenicity; D007251:Influenza, Human / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D014195:Travel; D014421:Turkey / Q000453:epidemiology; D055815:Young Adult