H1N1 Virus Epidemiology
Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology publishes research in h1n1 virus epidemiology
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, February 28th, 2010
Fresh data on h1n1 virus are presented in the report 'Development of a real-time RT-PCR assay for a novel influenza A (H1N1) virus.' According to a study from Beijing, People's Republic of China, "A pandemic caused by a novel influenza A virus (H1N1) poses a serious public health threat. In this study, a real-time reverse transcriptase PCR (RT-PCR) assay based on the hemagglutinin gene was developed that discriminates the novel H1N1 from swine influenza virus, seasonal H1N1/H3N2 virus and the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus."
"The sensitivity of this assay was 0.2 50% tissue culture infective dose of virus and 200 copies of in vitro-transcribed target RNA....
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