Hospital surveillance of influenza strains: a concordant image of viruses identified by the Swiss Sentinel system?

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Swiss Sentinel system for influenza virus surveillance reports influenza-like illness in the community through a network of primary care practitioners, but the epidemiologic, demographic, and virological characterization may differ from that observed in hospitalized patients with influenza.

Objective

To compare demographic and virological data from hospital influenza cases with Sentinel system data during the 2014-2015 season.

Methods

We included 2623 in- and outpatients with a screening request for influenza A/B in a university teaching hospital in Geneva, Switzerland, and 933 participants from the Swiss Sentinel surveillance system and compared the demographic and virological data of the two populations, including the respective distribution of influe

SUBMITTER: Goncalves AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5155643 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature