Performance of case definitions and clinical predictors for influenza surveillance among patients followed in a rural cohort in Senegal.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Influenza is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in Africa. However, a lack of epidemiological data remains for this pathology, and the performances of the influenza-like illness (ILI) case definitions used for sentinel surveillance have never been evaluated in Senegal. This study aimed to i) assess the performance of three different ILI case definitions, adopted by the WHO, USA-CDC (CDC) and European-CDC (ECDC) and ii) identify clinical factors associated with a positive diagnosis for Influenza in order to develop an algorithm fitted for the Senegalese context.

Methods

All 657 patients with a febrile pathological episode (FPE) between January 2013 and December 2016 were followed in a cohort study in two rural villages in Senegal, accounting for 1653 FPE obse

SUBMITTER: Barry MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7790019 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature