Contagious Period for Pandemic (H1N1) 2009
Gaston De Serres
, Isabelle Rouleau, Marie-Eve Hamelin, Caroline Quach, Danuta Skowronski, Louis Flamand, Nicole Boulianne, Yan Li, Julie Carbonneau, Anne-Marie Bourgault, Michel Couillard, Hugues Charest, and Guy Boivin
Author affiliations: Institut National de Santé Publique du Québec, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada (G. De Serres, I. Rouleau, N. Boulianne, A.-M. Bourgault, M. Couillard, H. Charest), Laval University, Quebec City (G. De Serres, M.-E. Hamelin, L. Flamand, J. Carbonneau, G. Boivin); McGill University–Montreal Children's Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (C. Quach); British Columbia Centers for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (D. Skowronski); Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (Y. Li)
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Figure 2. Positive results by PCR and culture for influenza A and pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus (pH1N1) in 47 household contacts with laboratory-confirmed influenza, by delay between day of symptom onset and day of first swab collection, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, May 27–July 10, 2009.
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