Volume 16, Number 8—August 2010
Letter
Possible Recurrent Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Infection, Israel
Eran Kopel1
, Michal Mandelboim1, Ziva Amitai, Itamar Grotto, Musa Hindiyeh, Ehud Kaliner, Ella Mendelson, and Irina Volovik
, Michal Mandelboim1, Ziva Amitai, Itamar Grotto, Musa Hindiyeh, Ehud Kaliner, Ella Mendelson, and Irina VolovikTable
Real-time RT-PCR for pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus and results of experimental assay* for oseltamivir resistance mutation H275Y, Israel, 2009†
| Date | Patient 1 |
Patient 2 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RT-PCR | Oseltamivir resistance/sensitivity | RT-PCR | Oseltamivir resistance/sensitivity | ||
| Aug 10 | Positive | Sensitive | – | – | |
| Aug 14 | – | – | Positive | Resistant | |
| Aug 19 | – | – | Positive | Resistant | |
| Sep 1 | – | – | Positive | Resistant | |
| Sep 14 | – | – | Negative | – | |
| Nov 22 | Positive | Sensitive | Negative | – | |
| Nov 29 | Negative | – | – | – | |
| Dec 14 | – | – | Positive | Sensitive | |
| Dec 14 | – | – | Negative | – | |
| Dec 17 | – | – | Negative | – | |
| Dec 21 | – | – | Negative | – | |
*Source (4).
†RT-PCR, reverse transcription–PCR; –, not tested.
1These authors contributed equally to this article.
