Volume 18, Number 12—December 2012
Dispatch
No Evidence of Prolonged Hendra Virus Shedding by 2 Patients, Australia
Carmel Taylor, Elliott G. Playford, William J.H. McBride, Jamie McMahon, and David Warrilow
Table
Samples from patients infected with Hendra virus, Australia*
| Sample type | No. positive/no. tested (%) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Patient 2† | Patient 3‡ | Patient 4‡ | |
| Blood | 7/18 (39) | 6/11 (55) | 22/22 (100) |
| Urine | 9/17 (53) | 7/7 (100) | 19/22 (86) |
| NPA or swab specimen | 10/13 (77) | 3/11 (27) | 19/ 20 (95) |
*NPA, nasopharyngeal aspirate.
†Human infected with Hendra virus; virus shed 3–6 weeks postexposure.
‡Two other humans infected with Hendra virus; virus was shed 3–5 weeks postexposure.
