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Estimate of Novel Influenza A/H1N1 cases in Mexico at the early stage of the pandemic with a spatially structured epidemic model
Vittoria Colizza, Alessandro Vespignani, Nicola Perra, Chiara Poletto, Bruno Gonçalves, Hao Hu, Duygu Balcan, Daniela Paolotti, Wouter Van den Broeck, Michele Tizzoni, Paolo Bajardi, and Jose J. Ramasco
PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Nov 18:RRN129.
Public preparedness guidance for a severe influenza pandemic in different countries: a qualitative assessment and critical overview
Wladimir J. Alonso and Cynthia Schuck Paim
PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Nov 10:RRN128.
Optimizing Tactics for use of the U.S. Antiviral Strategic National Stockpile for Pandemic (H1N1) Influenza, 2009
Nedialko Dimitrov, Sebastian Goll, Lauren Ancel Meyers, Babak Pourbohloul, and Nathaniel Huper
PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Nov 9:RRN127.
The early diversification of influenza A/H1N1pdm
Martha Nelson, David Spiro, David Wentworth, Eric Beck, Jiang Fan, Elodie Ghedin, Rebecca Halpin, Jayati Bera, Erin Hine, Kathleen Proudfoot, Tim Stockwell, Xudong Lin, Sara Griesemer, Swati Kumar, Michael Bose, Cecile Viboud, Edward Holmes, and Kelly Henrickson
PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Nov 9:RRN1126.
Quantifying the transmissibility of human influenza and its seasonal variation in temperate regions
James Truscott, Christophe Fraser, Wes Hinsley, Simon Cauchemez, Christl Donnelly, Azra Ghani, and Neil Ferguson
PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Nov 3:RRN1125.
Mining the NCBI Influenza Sequence Database: adaptive grouping of BLAST results using precalculated neighbor indexing
Leonid Zaslavsky and Tatiana Tatusova
PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Nov 2:RRN1124.
Rapid Development of an Efficacious Swine Vaccine for Novel H1N1
Ryan Vander Veen, Kurt Kamrud, Mark Mogler, Alan T. Loynachan, Jerry McVicker, Peter Berglund, Gary Owens, Sarah Timberlake, Whitney Lewis, Jonathan Smith, and DL Hank Harris
PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Nov 2:RRN1123.
Antiviral usage for H1N1 treatment: pros, cons and an argument for broader prescribing guidelines in the United States
Edward Goldstein and Marc Lipsitch
PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Nov 2:RRN1122.
Targeted vs. systematic early antiviral treatment against A(H1N1)v influenza with neuraminidase inhibitors in patients with influenza-like symptoms: Clinical and economic impact
Sylvie Deuffic-Burban, Xavier Lenne, Benoit Dervaux, Julien Poissy, Xavier Lemaire, Caroline Sloan, Fabrice Carrat, Jean-Claude Desenclos, Jean-Francois Delfraissy, and Yazdan Yazdanpanah
PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Oct 28:RRN1121.
Improving the diagnostic efficiency of H1N1 2009 pandemic flu: analysis of predictive clinical signs through a prospective cohort
Philippe Brouqui, Vinh Vu Hai, Antoine Nougairede, Jean-Christophe Lagier, Elisabeth Botelho, Laetitia Ninove, Christine Zandotti, Remi N. Charrel, Xavier De Lamballerie, and Didier Raoult
PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Oct 28:RRN1120.
Can Reactive School Closures help critical care provision during the current influenza pandemic?
Thomas House, Marc Baguelin, Albert Jan van Hoek, Stefan Flasche, P White, Md Zia Sadique, Ken Eames, Jonathan Read, Niel Hens, Alessia Melegaro, and Matt Keeling
PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Oct 28:RRN1119.
Green tea catechins inhibit the endonuclease activity of influenza A virus RNA polymerase
Takashi Kuzuhara, Yuma Iwai, Hironobu Takahashi, Dai Hatakeyama, and Noriko Echigo
PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Oct 13:RRN1052.
Economic Cost and Health Care Workforce Effects of School Closures in the U.S.
Howard Lempel, Joshua M Epstein, and Ross A Hammond
PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Oct 13:RRN1051.
The Shifting Demographic Landscape of Influenza
Shweta Bansal, Babak Pourbohloul, Bryan Grenfell, and Lauren Ancel Meyers
Versison 2. PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Oct 5:RRN1047.
Pandemic influenza dynamics and the breakdown of herd immunity
Guy Katriel and Lewi Stone
PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Oct 2:RRN1046.
E14-F55 combination in M2 protein: a putative molecular determinant responsible for swine-origin influenza A virus transmission in humans
Chungen Pan and Shibo Jiang
Version 2. PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Oct 9:RRN1044.
The severity of pandemic H1N1 influenza in the United States, April – July 2009
Anne Presanis, Marc Lipsitch, Daniela De Angelis, Swine Flu Investigation Team, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Angie Hagy, Carrie Reed, Steven Riley, Ben Cooper, Paul Biedrzycki, and Lyn Finelli
Version 3. PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Oct 2:RRN1042.
SeqMonitor: Influenza Analysis Pipeline and Visualization
Norman MacDonald, Donovan Parks, and Robert Beiko
PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Sep 23:RRN1040.
Point of Care strategy for rapid diagnosis of novel A/H1N1 influenza virus
Antoine Nougairede, Laetitia Ninove, Christine Zandotti, Xavier De Lamballerie, Celine Gazin, Michel Drancourt, Bernard La Scola, Didier Raoult, and Remi N. Charrel
PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Sep 22:RRN1039.
Behavioural responses to influenza pandemics: What do we know?
Marta Balinska and Caterina Rizzo
PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Sep 10:RRN1037.
Social versus independent interest in 'bird flu' and 'swine flu'
R. Alexander Bentley and Paul Ormerod
PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Sep 7:RRN1036.
Reconstructing the initial global spread of a human influenza pandemic: A Bayesian spatial-temporal model for the global spread of H1N1pdm
Philippe Lemey, Marc Suchard, and Andrew Rambaut
Version 2. PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Oct 1:RRN1031.
Top-hits for H1N1pdm Identified by Virtual Screening Using Ensemble-based Docking
Hung T. Nguyen, Ly Le, and Thanh N. Truong
Version 3. PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Sep 3 [revised 2009 Sep 7]:RRN1030.
Spatiotemporal dynamics in the early stages of the 2009 A/H1N1 influenza pandemic
Thibaut Jombart, Rosalind M Eggo, Francois Balloux, and Pete Dodd
PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Aug 31:RRN1026.
Adjuvant is necessary for a robust immune response to a single dose of H1N1 pandemic flu vaccine in mice
Philip R. Dormitzer, Rino Rappuoli, Daniele Casini, Derek O'Hagan, Celene Runham, Emanuele Montomoli, Barbara Baudner, John J. Donnelly III, and Giulia Lapini
Version 2. PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Aug 31 [revised 2009 Sep 1]:RRN1025.
Molecular modeling of swine influenza A/H1N1, Spanish H1N1, and avian H5N1 flue N1 neuraminidases bound to Tamiflu and Relenza
Ly Le, Eric Lee, Klaus Schulten, and Thanh N. Truong
Version 3. PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Aug 27 [revised 2009 Sep 2]:RRN1015.
Tracking the evolution and geographic spread of Influenza A
Donovan H. Parks, Norman J. MacDonald, and Robert G. Beiko
Version 2. PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Sep 25:RRN1014.
Mortality and morbidity burden associated with A/H1N1pdm influenza virus: Who is likely to be infected, experience clinical symptoms, or die from the H1N1pdm 2009 pandemic virus?
Mark Miller, Cecile Viboud, Lone Simonsen, Donald R. Olson, and Colin Russell
Version 2. PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Aug 26 [revised 2009 Sep 2]:RRN1013.
Next Generation Syndromic Surveillance: Molecular Epidemiology, Electronic Health Records and the Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1) Virus
Raul Rabadan, Neil Calman, and George Hripcsak
PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Aug 26:RRN1012.
Fitness of Pandemic H1N1 and Seasonal influenza A viruses during Co-infection: Evidence of competitive advantage of pandemic H1N1 influenza versus seasonal influenza
Daniel Perez, Erin Sorrell, Matthew Angel, Jianqiang Ye, Danielle Hickman, Lindomar Pena, Gloria Ramirez-Nieto, Brian Kimble, and Yonas Araya
Version 2. PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Aug 25 [revised 2009 Aug 27]:RRN1011.
First estimation of direct H1N1pdm virulence: From reported non consolidated data from Mauritius and New Caledonia
Antoine Flahault
PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Aug 23:RRN1010.
Swine origin influenza A (H1N1) virus and ICU capacity in the US: Are we prepared?
Marya D. Zilberberg, Christian Sandrock, and Andrew Shorr
PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Aug 22:RRN1009.
Reassortment Patterns in Swine Influenza Viruses
Hossein Khiabanian, Vladimir Trifonov, and Raul Rabadan
Version 2. PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Oct 22:RRN1008.
Predispensing of Antivirals to High-Risk Individuals in an Influenza Pandemic
Edward Goldstein, Joel C. Miller, Justin O'Hagan, and Marc Lipsitch
Version 4. PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Aug 21 [revised 2009 Sep 16]:RRN1007.
The Contribution of the PB1-F2 Protein to the Fitness of Influenza A Viruses and its Recent Evolution in the 2009 Influenza A (H1N1) Pandemic Virus
Vladimir Trifonov, Vincent Racaniello and Raul Rabadan
Version 3. PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Aug 21 [revised 2009 Aug 28]:RRN1006.
Reducing infuenza spreading over the airline network
Jose Marcelino and Marcus Kaiser
PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Aug 21:RRN1005.
Adaptive vaccination strategies to mitigate pandemic influenza: Mexico as a case study
Gerardo Chowell, Cecile Viboud, Xiaohong Wang, Stefano Bertozzi, and Mark Miller
PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Aug 19:RRN1004.
The early molecular epidemiology of the swine-origin A/H1N1 human influenza pandemic
Andrew Rambaut and Edward Holmes
PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Aug 18:RRN1003.
Transmission of influenza virus in temperate zones is predominantly by aerosol, in the tropics by contact: A hypothesis
Anice Lowen and Peter Palese
PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Aug 18:RRN1002.
Evolutionary Dynamics of N-Glycosylation Sites of Influenza Virus Hemagglutinin
Joshua L. Cherry, David J. Lipman, Anastasia Nikolskaya, and Yuri I Wolf
PLoS Currents Influenza. 2009 Aug 18:RRN1001.