Surveillance for severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) in hospitals in the WHO european region - an exploratory analysis of risk factors for a severe outcome in influenza-positive SARI cases

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Meerhoff, Tamara J ^a   Simaku, Artan ^b   Ulqinaku, Dritan ^b   Torosyan, Liana ^c   Gribkova, Natalia ^d   Shimanovich, Veronica ^e   Chakhunashvili, Giorgi ^f   Karseladze, Irakli ^f   Yesmagambetova, Aizhan ^g   Kuatbayeva, Ainagul ^h   Nurmatov, Zuridin ⁱ   Otorbaeva, Dinagul ^j   Lupulescu, Emilia ^k   Popovici, Odette ^l   Smorodintseva, Elizaveta ^m   Sominina, Anna ^m   Holubka, Olga ⁿ   Onyshchenko, Olga ⁿ   Brown, Caroline S ^o   Gross, Diane ^o  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Laboratory of Medical Entomology   (Albania)

^c Ministry of Health   (Armenia)

^d Municipal Center of Hygiene and Epidemiology   (Belarus)

^e The Scientific and Practical Republican Center of Hygiene   (Belarus)

^f National Center for Disease Control   (Georgia)

^g Epidemiological Surveillance MOH ^*  (Kazakhstan)

^h Scientifical Practical Center of Sanitary Epidemiological Expertise and Monitoring   (Kazakhstan)

ⁱ National Virology Laboratory   (Kyrgyzstan)

^j Department of State Sanitary Epidemiological Surveillance ^*  (Kyrgyzstan)

^k CANTACUZINO INSTITUTE   (Romania)

^l National Public Health Management and Training School   (Romania)

^m Research Institute of Influenza   (Russian Federation)

ⁿ SI "Gromashevsky LV Institute of epidemiology and infectious diseases NAMS of Ukraine"   (Ukraine)

^o WHO REGIONAL OFFICE FOR EUROPE   (Denmark)

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Author keywords

Europe; Influenza; Risk factor; Severe acute respiratory infection; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALBANIA; ARMENIA; ARTICLE; BELARUS; CHILD; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATALITY; FEMALE; GEORGIA (REPUBLIC); HEALTH SURVEY; HEART DISEASE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KAZAKHSTAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; KYRGYZSTAN; LIVER DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANT WOMAN; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; ROMANIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY INFECTION; UKRAINE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; AGE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EUROPE; HOSPITALIZATION; INFLUENZA A VIRUS (H1N1); ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EUROPE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RISK FACTORS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84923887177     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12879-014-0722-x     Document Type: Article

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