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Volume 21, Number 8—August 2015
Research

Phylogeography of Influenza A(H3N2) Virus in Peru, 2010–2012

Simon PollettComments to Author , Martha I. Nelson, Matthew R. Kasper, Yeny Tinoco, Mark Simons, Candice Romero, Marita Silva, Xudong Lin, Rebecca A. Halpin, Nadia B. Fedorova, Timothy B. Stockwell, David Wentworth, Edward C. Holmes, and Daniel G. Bausch
Author affiliations: University of California San Francisco, California, USA (S. Pollett); United States Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6, Lima, Peru (S. Pollett, M. Kasper, Y. Tinoco, M. Simons, C. Romero, M. Silva, D.G. Bausch); University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (S. Pollett, E.C. Holmes); National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (M.I. Nelson); Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA (M.I. Nelson); J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, USA (X. Lin, R.A. Halpin, N. Fedorova, T.B. Stockwell, D. Wentworth); Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA (D.G. Bausch)

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Table 1

Distribution of sequenced influenza A(H3N2) virus strains, compared with all confirmed cases of influenza and influenza-like illness, Peru, 2010–2012

Year, location No. sequenced influenza A(H3N2) strains* No. other strains or illnesses
All H3N2 Influenza A(H1N1) pdm09 Influenza B Influenza illness Influenza-like illness
2010
All 227 414 138 306 858 1,716
Lima 41 95 38 96 229 458
Cusco 31 42 63 74 179 358
Tumbes 92 155 25 83 263 526
Puerto Maldonado
 63
 122
 12
 53
 187
 374
2011
All 105 219 36 16 271 542
Lima 13 35 6 1 42 84
Cusco 65 101 2 0 103 206
Tumbes 2 17 11 14 42 84
Puerto Maldonado
 25
 66
 17
 1
 84
 168
2012
All 57 87 57 233 377 754
Lima 27 45 29 48 122 244
Cusco 0 7 7 74 88 176
Tumbes 28 42 18 18 78 156
Puerto Maldonado
 2
 38
 3
 93
 134
 268
2010–2012
All 389 1,485 462 1110 3057 6,114

*Strains sequenced during this phylogeographic study of influenza A(H3N2) virus in Peru.

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