Complicated hospitalization due to influenza: results from the Global Hospital Influenza Network for the 2017-2018 season.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Since 2011, the Global Influenza Hospital Surveillance Network (GIHSN) has used active surveillance to prospectively collect epidemiological and virological data on patients hospitalized with influenza virus infection. Here, we describe influenza virus strain circulation in the GIHSN participant countries during 2017-2018 season and examine factors associated with complicated hospitalization among patients admitted with laboratory-confirmed influenza illness. METHODS:The study enrolled patients who were hospitalized in a GIHSN hospital in the previous 48 h with acute respiratory symptoms and who had symptoms consistent with influenza within the 7 days before admission. Enrolled patients were tested by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction to confirm influenza virus inf

SUBMITTER: Lina B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7330273 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature