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New swine-flu discovery by Wales-based panel
Dec 23 2010 by Madeleine Brindley, Western Mail

PUBLISHED research has confirmed the first cases of person-to-person spread of a strain of swine flu resistant to the drug Tamiflu.

A study by Public Health Wales experts has analysed an outbreak of the resistant strain in patients being treated at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, last year.

Eight patients of 11 who contracted swine flu while being treated on the hospitals haematology unit were found to have infections resistant to Tamiflu (oseltamivir).

The men were aged between 19 and 74 and were being treated for forms of leukaemia, lymphoma and multiple myeloma when they contracted the resistant strain of the virus between October and November 2009.

One of the patients was treated in the hospitals intensive care unit.

The article is by Dr Catherine Moore, principal clinical scientist, regional epidemiologists Dr Roland Salmon and Dr Meirion Evans, and Dr Eleri Roberts, who is director of the Welsh Healthcare Associated Infections programme.

It explains how guidelines were altered to include treatment with an alternative antiviral drug, which the H1N1 virus was not resistant to.

The article, which is published in the January edition of the Journal of Infectious Diseases, states: This is the first confirmed outbreak to our knowledge of OR-(H1N1) 2009 virus with person-to-person transmission.

It occurred during the peak of the second wave of the (H1N1) 2009 pandemic in Wales.

The virus was introduced to the haematology unit from the community with oseltamivir resistance being driven by treatment in two lymphopenic patients with onward transmission of OR-(H1N1) 2009 virus to other patients on the unit.



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