Validity of clinical case definitions for influenza surveillance among hospitalized patients: Results from a rural community in North India

Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 321-329

  Gupta, Vivek ^a   Dawood, Fatimah S ^b   Rai, Sanjay K ^a   Broor, Shobha ^a   Wigh, Rajan ^a   Mishra, Akhilesh C ^c   Lafond, Kathryn ^b   Mott, Joshua A ^b   Widdowson, Marc Alain ^b   Lal, Renu B ^b   Krishnan, Anand ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Case definitions; Epidemiology; FARI; ILI; India; Influenza; Inpatients; SARI; Surveillance; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL STUDY; COUGHING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FEVER; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INDIA; INFANT; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); INFLUENZA VIRUS; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NOSE SMEAR; OTALGIA; PNEUMONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHINORRHEA; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SORE THROAT; THROAT CULTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; RURAL POPULATION; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876670021     PISSN: 17502640     EISSN: 17502659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-2659.2012.00401.x     Document Type: Article

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