| [screening for antibodies against zoonotic agents among employees of the zoological garden of vienna, schönbrunn, austria]. | the aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of antibodies against zoonotic agents in employees of the zoological garden of vienna, schönbrunn, austria. sixty out of 120 employees participated in the study. in 97% of them antibodies to at least one zoonotic agent were identified. only two participants were free of antibodies to the zoonotic agents tested. the following seroprevalences (in brackets) were obtained: viral zoonotic (and potentially zoonotic) agents: influenzavirus a/h1n1 ... | 2004 | 15495931 |
| attributable deaths due to influenza: a comparative study of seasonal and pandemic influenza. | influenza epidemics lead to an increase in hospitalizations and deaths. up to now the overall impact of attributable deaths due to seasonal and pandemic influenza viruses in austria has not been investigated in detail. therefore we compared the number and age distribution of influenza associated deaths during ten influenza epidemic seasons to those observed during the pandemic influenza a(h1n1)2009 season. a poisson model, relating age and daily deaths to week of influenza season using national ... | 2012 | 22678614 |
| pandemic influenza a h1n1 vaccine in recipients of solid organ transplants: immunogenicity and tolerability outcomes after vero cell derived, non-adjuvanted, whole-virion vaccination. | during the 2009/10 pandemic of influenza a (h1n1), the american society of transplantation and other health organizations recommended that immunocompromised patients should be vaccinated as the key preventive measure. since there are no data available for the immunogenicity of the unadjuvanted pandemic influenza vaccine in immunocompromised patients - as opposed to the adjuvanted preparation - the objective of this study was to evaluate the immunogenicity of an adjuvant-free h1n1 vaccine in reci ... | 2011 | 21803100 |