Identifying the transmission route of influenza A(H1N1) 2009 in Japan by geographic, effective and phylogenetic distances

Background: A large outbreak of influenza A(H1N1) was observed in 2009 and a huge number of people was infected and died during this pandemic event. The natural hosts of influenza virus are wild birds, however, the infection spreads mainly by human-to-human transmission once the viruses are adopted to humans. To develop health countermeasures, it is therefore important to identify how the viruses spread during the outbreak. In this talk, the transmission route of influenza A(H1N1) in 2009 in Japan was estimated based on three different information, namely geographic distance, domestic transportation network and genome information.
Source: International Journal of Infectious Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Tags: UMP. 283 Source Type: research