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Robert Roos, news editor of CIDRAP, has a summary tonight of a Rapid Communications report that appears in today’s Eurosurveillance Journal regarding a small number of oseltamivir resistant H1N1 flu strains recently detected in the UK.
The report is called:
Eurosurveillance, Volume 16, Issue 5, 03 February 2011
Rapid communications
A Lackenby , J Moran Gilad, R Pebody, S Miah, L Calatayud, S Bolotin, I Vipond, P Muir, M Guiver, J McMenamin, A Reynolds, C Moore, R Gunson, CI Thompson, M Galiano, A Bermingham, J Ellis, M Zambon
Rather than squandering valuable electrons by needlessly summarizing this report myself, I’ll simply direct you to CIDRAP’s excellent summary.
UK findings hint at spread of resistant H1N1 strain
Robert Roos
News Editor
Feb 3, 2011 (CIDRAP News) – British researchers say 3 of 27 cases of oseltamivir (Tamiflu)-resistant 2009 H1N1 influenza detected in Britain so far this season were in outpatients who had no known exposure to the drug, suggesting that resistant strains may be spreading at a low level in the community.
Writing in Eurosurveillance today, the authors say the finding "suggests possible onward transmission of resistant strains and could be an indication of a possibility of changing epidemiology of oseltamivir-resistant influenza A(H1N1) virus." However, no transmission has been confirmed so far, they report.
