Pune, Aug 7 - An 18-year-old girl student of Symbiosis college in this Maharashtra city was found positive for the H1N1 virus here Friday afternoon following which the campus has been closed for a week, a university official said.

'The patient is a student of computer science and is being treated at a government medical facility,' said Faculty of Health Science dean Rajiv Yeravdekar.

He emphasised that barring the Senapati Bapat Marg campus, all other 16 campuses of the Symbiosis group of institutions were functioning normally and there was no cause for panic.

'In the meantime, we have decided to close down all the educational institutions on Senapati Bapat Marg till next Friday.'

With this, the total number of affected people in Maharashtra has touched 173, and the medical authorities are awaiting the test results of another 58 suspected cases by evening, said State Swine Flu Control Room head Pradeep Awate.

In a positive development, Awate said of the 173 cases so far, 128 people had been discharged till Thursday evening after completing their treatment.

'Now, only 45 patients, including one who is in intensive care unit (ICU), continue to be under treatment at various hospitals in Pune and Mumbai. Depending on their response to medication, they shall be discharged in due course,' he said.

With Maharashtra being the worst affected state and Pune reporting the most number of cases, people continued to queue up outside the 15 H1N1 preliminary screening centres opened Thursday, said Pune Municipal Corporation's (PMC) health department head S.