A Systematic Review of Influenza Epidemiology and Surveillance in the Eastern Mediterranean and North African Region.

ABSTRACT: Seasonal influenza represents a huge health burden, resulting in significant mortality and morbidity. Following the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, focus has been directed on the burden of influenza globally. Country and regional disease burden estimates play important roles in helping inform decisions on national influenza intervention programmes. Despite improvements in influenza surveillance following the 2009 pandemic, many opportunities remain unexplored in the Eastern Mediterranean and North African (EMNA) region, which has a high prevalence of patients with chronic disease and thus a population at high risk of influenza complications. We conducted a systematic literature review of Embase, Medline, Scopus and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews from 1 January 1998 to 31 January 2020 cove

SUBMITTER: Soudani S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8742167 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature