item: #1 of 38 id: cord-001521-l36f1gp7 author: None title: Oral and Poster Manuscripts date: 2011-04-08 words: 183853 flesch: 46 summary: The concept that swine are a mixing-vessel for the reassortment of influenza viruses and for the emergence of pandemic influenza viruses has been re-enforced by the emergence of the recent pandemic. This study was supported by Contract HHSN266200700005C from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Pigs have been considered as hypothetical 'mixing vessels' facilitating the genesis of pandemic influenza viruses. keywords: 0ae05; 0ae1; 2ae5; a(h1n1; a(h1n1)2009 influenza; a(h1n1)2009 virus; a549; ability; absence; absorbance; account; acid; activation; activity; acute; acute influenza; adaptation; addition; address; adjuvant; administration; admission; adults; aerosol; af03; affected; affinity; age; aged; agents; agonists; ah1pdm influenza; aim; airway; allantoic; alveolar; amantadine; american; amino; amplification; analysis; animal influenza; animals; antibodies; antibody; antibody response; antigens; antisera; antiviral; aoe ⁄; apoptosis; application; applied; approach; appropriate; april; area; asia ⁄; assay; assessment; associated; association; attenuated; australia; available; average; avian; avian h5n1; avian viruses; b virus; b viruses; 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⁄ h3n2; ⁄ h5n1; ⁄ hamburg; ⁄ hk; ⁄ hok; ⁄ hong; ⁄ igg1; ⁄ js; ⁄ korea; ⁄ lee; ⁄ leningrad; ⁄ ll; ⁄ m-12; ⁄ mexico; ⁄ ml; ⁄ nepal; ⁄ netherlands; ⁄ new; ⁄ ns1; ⁄ ns2; ⁄ nt499; ⁄ oceanian; ⁄ ontario; ⁄ pacific; ⁄ panama; ⁄ penn; ⁄ pr8; ⁄ prague; ⁄ rostock; ⁄ sec; ⁄ st; ⁄ texas; ⁄ th2; ⁄ tmprss13; ⁄ turkey; ⁄ ulaanbaatar; ⁄ victoria; ⁄ vietnam; ⁄ w81; ⁄ wisconsin; ⁄ wsn; ⁄ wt; ⁄ yamagata cache: cord-001521-l36f1gp7.txt plain text: cord-001521-l36f1gp7.txt item: #2 of 38 id: cord-002438-b8t4a57r author: Cheng, Wei title: Comparison of Influenza Epidemiological and Virological Characteristics between Outpatients and Inpatients in Zhejiang Province, China, March 2011–June 2015 date: 2017-02-22 words: 4847 flesch: 48 summary: Our study demonstrated that the activities of influenza virus, including its subtypes, had a similar temporal pattern between ILI and SARI cases. Currently, the selection of strains for the annual influenza vaccine are primarily 2 of 12 based on the predominant strain of influenza virus detected in influenza-like illness (ILI) keywords: a(h7n9; acute; age; ages; cases; characteristics; children; china; correlation; figure; group; higher; hospitals; ili; ili patients; illness; influenza; influenza virus; like; number; old; outpatients; patients; percentage; positive; positive rate; province; rate; respiratory; samples; sari; sari cases; sari patients; sentinel; severe; study; subtypes; surveillance; table; test; virus; viruses; weekly; years; zhejiang cache: cord-002438-b8t4a57r.txt plain text: cord-002438-b8t4a57r.txt item: #3 of 38 id: cord-002451-r7a0orh7 author: Chu, Yanhui title: Effects of school breaks on influenza-like illness incidence in a temperate Chinese region: an ecological study from 2008 to 2015 date: 2017-03-06 words: 3590 flesch: 49 summary: 9 10 Significant associations between winter school breaks and temporary reductions of influenza-like illness (ILI) incidence have been found in Chile 10 and Argentina, 9 as children were less likely to be gathered during school breaks thus reducing the chance of influenza transmission. Serfling-based Poisson regression model with adjustment for unmeasured confounders was built to further assess the effect of winter school breaks. keywords: activities; adults; age; average; behaviour; beijing; breaks; china; closure; data; district; effects; figure; groups; health; ili; illness; incidence; influenza; irrs; like; lower; model; older; pandemic; poisson; population; rates; reduction; school; schoolchildren; seasonal; specific; study; summer; surveillance; table; transmission; visits; week; weekly; winter; years cache: cord-002451-r7a0orh7.txt plain text: cord-002451-r7a0orh7.txt item: #4 of 38 id: cord-002753-lvlbwcl0 author: Rogers, Kimberly B. title: Laboratory-based respiratory virus surveillance pilot project on select cruise ships in Alaska, 2013–15() date: 2017-10-06 words: 3691 flesch: 36 summary: The value of cruise ship influenza surveillance is highlighted by outbreaks of seasonal and pandemic influenza among passengers and crews, 2,7-9 and the potential for introduction of antigenically drifted seasonal influenza virus strains. Influenza outbreaks among cruise ship passengers and crew members are relatively common, and may be prolonged and challenging to control as new, susceptible passengers embark at frequent intervals. keywords: alaska; asvl; board; cdc; control; crew; cruise; data; days; disease; embarkation; health; history; ili; illness; individuals; influenza; laboratory; land; lines; medical; members; onset; outbreaks; passengers; pilot; positive; prevention; program; project; quarantine; report; reporting; respiratory; results; season; ships; specimens; state; strains; surveillance; table; testing; transmission; vaccination; virus; viruses; voyage; years cache: cord-002753-lvlbwcl0.txt plain text: cord-002753-lvlbwcl0.txt item: #5 of 38 id: cord-028048-0oqv2jom author: Rguig, Ahmed title: Establishing seasonal and alert influenza thresholds in Morocco date: 2020-06-29 words: 5805 flesch: 40 summary: While several statistical methods are commonly used, there is no gold standard for calculating influenza epidemic thresholds. Can syndromic thresholds provide early warning of national influenza outbreaks? Methods for monitoring influenza surveillance data A routine tool for detection and assessment of epidemics of influenza-like syndromes in France A statistical algorithm for the early detection of outbreaks of infectious disease Do CuSums have a role in routine communicable disease surveillance? keywords: activity; alert; analysis; assessment; average; average epidemic; beginning; composite; consultations; control; curve; data; disease; epidemic; epidemic period; epidemic threshold; establishing; fig; health; high; ili; influenza; influenza activity; influenza epidemic; influenza season; influenza surveillance; intensity; interval; laboratory; limit; mean; mem; mem method; method; model; morocco; national; outpatient; pandemic; parameter; peak; period; public; respiratory; seasonal; seasonal threshold; seasons; start; study; surveillance; surveillance data; syndromic; system; table; threshold; timing; upper; vaccination; values; virologic; week; weekly; year cache: cord-028048-0oqv2jom.txt plain text: cord-028048-0oqv2jom.txt item: #6 of 38 id: cord-252884-miptf6od author: Jeffery, Diana D. title: Impact of the 2009 Influenza (H1N1) Pandemic on the United States Military Health Care System date: 2013-06-17 words: 2936 flesch: 36 summary: Finally, while the cost of care provided in civilian settings is directly calculated from government payments/costs at a claim level, military care costs are reported in aggregate (by clinic) and then fitted and allocated to the detail visit level; hence, military care costs are inexact comparisons to civilian costs. Highest health care utilization costs were found in children less than age 5. keywords: age; beneficiaries; care; cases; civilian; costs; data; department; disease; dod; emergencies; emergency; facilities; h1n1; health; health care; immunizations; impact; influenza; inpatient; january; level; members; mhs; military; models; number; outbreak; outpatient; pandemic; preparedness; public; season; services; states; study; system; tricare; u.s; united; utilization; vaccine; visits cache: cord-252884-miptf6od.txt plain text: cord-252884-miptf6od.txt item: #7 of 38 id: cord-254556-1zthrgy1 author: Taylor, Sylvia title: Respiratory viruses and influenza-like illness: Epidemiology and outcomes in children aged 6 months to 10 years in a multi-country population sample date: 2016-09-22 words: 4554 flesch: 45 summary: Epidemiology of viral respiratory infections Viral infections of the lower respiratory tract: old viruses, new viruses, and the role of diagnosis Estimates of world-wide distribution of child deaths from acute respiratory infections Global burden of childhood pneumonia and diarrhoea Comparison of multiplex PCR assays and conventional techniques for the diagnostic of respiratory virus infections in children admitted to hospital with an acute respiratory illness Molecular diagnosis of respiratory virus infections The role of infections and coinfections with newly identified and emerging respiratory viruses in children Relative efficacy of AS03-adjuvanted pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccine in children: results of a controlled, randomized efficacy trial Prevalence and incidence of respiratory syncytial virus and other respiratory viral infections in children 6 months to 10 years of age with influenza-like illness enrolled in a randomized trial Comparison of the Luminex xTAG respiratory viral panel fast for diagnosis of respiratory virus infection The use of confidence or fiducial limits illustrated in the case of the binomial A simple method to calculate the confidence interval of a standardized mortality ratio (SMR) Community epidemiology of human metapneumovirus, human coronavirus NL63, and other respiratory viruses in healthy preschool-aged children using parentcollected specimens Clinical epidemiology of bocavirus, rhinovirus, two polyomaviruses and four coronaviruses in HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected South African children Epidemiology of respiratory viral infections in children enrolled in a study of influenza vaccine effectiveness Incidence and etiology of acute lower respiratory tract infections in hospitalized children younger than 5 years in rural Thailand Severe lower respiratory tract infection in infants and toddlers from a non-affluent population: viral etiology and co-detection as risk factors Viruses associated with acute respiratory infections and influenza-like illness among outpatients from the Influenza Incidence Surveillance Project Picornavirus, the most common respiratory virus causing infection among patients of all ages hospitalized with acute respiratory illness Respiratory viruses within homeless shelters in Marseille, France Human rhinoviruses and enteroviruses in influenza-like illness in Latin America Respiratory viral infections during the 2009e2010 winter season in Central England, UK: incidence and patterns of multiple virus co-infections Concurrent detection of other respiratory viruses in children shedding viable human respiratory syncytial virus Community-acquired pneumonia requiring hospitalization among US children All authors participated in the design, or implementation, or analysis and interpretation of the study results; as well as in the development of this manuscript. keywords: active; adenovirus; age; aged; analysis; burden; cases; children; clinical; cohort; coronavirus; countries; country; data; enterovirus; epidemiology; episodes; gsk; h1n1; hbov; healthy; highest; hmpv; human; ili; illness; incidence; infection; influenza; like; months; multiplex; parainfluenza; pcr; pneumonia; population; prevalence; respiratory; respiratory viruses; rhinovirus; rsv; sample; single; study; surveillance; table; throat; total; trial; vaccine; viral; viruses; years cache: cord-254556-1zthrgy1.txt plain text: cord-254556-1zthrgy1.txt item: #8 of 38 id: cord-256943-71tnv4lp author: Santillana, Mauricio title: Using Clinicians’ Search Query Data to Monitor Influenza Epidemics date: 2014-08-12 words: 2130 flesch: 41 summary: Other examples include the use of search query data from Yahoo! We also discuss the potential usefulness and limitations of digital data sources for infectious disease surveillance based on search query data [5, 7, 8, [24] [25] [26] keywords: activity; approach; available; cdc; clinicians; data; database; disease; epidemics; estimates; gft; google; ili; infectious; influenza; information; internet; methodology; model; november; period; prediction; queries; query; real; search; searches; states; study; support; surveillance; term; time; trends; united; uptodate; use; weekly cache: cord-256943-71tnv4lp.txt plain text: cord-256943-71tnv4lp.txt item: #9 of 38 id: cord-261241-eqf6ame6 author: van Beek, Josine title: Influenza-like Illness Incidence Is Not Reduced by Influenza Vaccination in a Cohort of Older Adults, Despite Effectively Reducing Laboratory-Confirmed Influenza Virus Infections date: 2017-08-15 words: 4447 flesch: 46 summary: Influenza virus was not detected in the corresponding recovery samples in this season, suggesting that influenza virus was the actual cause of ILI. key: cord-261241-eqf6ame6 authors: van Beek, Josine; Veenhoven, Reinier H; Bruin, Jacob P; van Boxtel, Renée A J; de Lange, Marit M A; Meijer, Adam; Sanders, Elisabeth A M; Rots, Nynke Y; Luytjes, Willem title: Influenza-like Illness Incidence Is Not Reduced by Influenza Vaccination in a Cohort of Older Adults, Despite Effectively Reducing Laboratory-Confirmed Influenza Virus Infections date: 2017-08-15 journal: J Infect Dis DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jix268 sha: doc_id: 261241 cord_uid: eqf6ame6 BACKGROUND: Data on the relative contribution of influenza virus and other respiratory pathogens to respiratory infections in community-dwelling older adults (≥60 years) are needed. keywords: acute; adults; age; analysis; asymptomatic; attack; bacteria; cases; cohort; community; control; data; different; disease; dutch; effectiveness; elderly; haemophilus; health; ili; incidence; individuals; infections; influenza; influenza virus; laboratory; netherlands; number; older; participants; pathogens; period; persons; positive; potential; recovery; respiratory; samples; season; second; similar; studies; study; subtype; surveillance; swabs; table; vaccinated; vaccination; vaccine; virus; viruses; visit; years cache: cord-261241-eqf6ame6.txt plain text: cord-261241-eqf6ame6.txt item: #10 of 38 id: cord-261282-r1nprlne author: CHUGHTAI, A. A. title: The presence of fever in adults with influenza and other viral respiratory infections date: 2016-10-03 words: 3874 flesch: 49 summary: Clinical presentation of influenza in hospitalized patients Fever in the elderly Ischaemic heart disease, influenza and influenza vaccination: a prospective case control study Natural course of fever during influenza virus infection in children Clinical features of the initial cases of 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus infection in China Clinical predictors for diagnosing pandemic (H1N1) 2009 and seasonal influenza (H3N2) in fever clinics in Beijing A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared to medical masks in healthcare workers A cluster randomized clinical trial comparing fit-tested and non-fit-tested N95 respirators to medical masks to prevent respiratory virus infection in health care workers A randomized clinical trial of three options for N95 respirators and medical masks in health workers Hospital triage system for adult patients using an influenza-like illness scoring system during the 2009 pandemic -Mexico Pandemic Influenza Triage Tools: User Guide Predicting influenza infections during epidemics with use of a clinical case definition Evaluation of clinical case definitions of influenza: detailed investigation of patients during the 1995-1996 epidemic in France Influenzavirus infections in Seattle families, 1975-1979. Influenza infection and disease Differing virulence of H1N1 and H3N2 influenza strains Influenza A and B virus infections in children Differences in clinical features between influenza A H1N1, A H3N2, and B in adult patients Seasonal influenza in adults and children -diagnosis, treatment, chemoprophylaxis, and institutional outbreak management: clinical practice guidelines of the Infectious Diseases Society of America Signs and symptoms predicting influenza in children: a matched case-control analysis of prospectively collected clinical data Clinical signs and symptoms predicting influenza infection Viral shedding and clinical illness in naturally acquired influenza virus infections Is influenza an influenza-like illness? keywords: adults; age; analysis; cases; children; china; clinical; common; coronavirus; data; definition; disease; elderly; fever; h3n2; hcws; high; higher; hmpv; ili; illness; infections; influenza; laboratory; patients; predictors; rates; research; respiratory; risk; rsv; sensitive; significant; smoking; strains; studies; study; surveillance; symptoms; trial; vietnam; viral; virus; viruses cache: cord-261282-r1nprlne.txt plain text: cord-261282-r1nprlne.txt item: #11 of 38 id: cord-263353-4mnsjbib author: Maman, Issaka title: Implementation of Influenza-like illness Sentinel Surveillance in Togo date: 2014-09-20 words: 4525 flesch: 49 summary: Table 3 Distribution of influenza viruses confirmed and ILI patients Influenza A was predominant in 2010 with pandemic influenza A (H1N1) pdm 09 in our study; this observation was similar to that of other countries in West Africa Of the 955 samples, 236 (24.7%) tested positive for influenza viruses; with 136 (14.2%) positive for influenza A and 100 (10.5%) positive for influenza B. The highest influenza positive percentage (30%) was observed in 5–14 years old and patients aged 0–4 and >60 years had the lowest percentage (20%). keywords: africa; age; april; capital; cases; cdc; children; city; cough; countries; data; december; disease; distribution; epidemiology; groups; h1n1; h3n2; health; high; ili; influenza; laboratory; like; lomé; military; namru-3; national; number; october; pandemic; pandemic influenza; patients; pdm09; population; positive; rate; region; results; samples; seasonal; sentinel; sites; study; surveillance; system; time; togo; viral; viruses; years cache: cord-263353-4mnsjbib.txt plain text: cord-263353-4mnsjbib.txt item: #12 of 38 id: cord-263464-fdosch11 author: Nuvey, Francis Sena title: Evaluation of the sentinel surveillance system for influenza-like illnesses in the Greater Accra region, Ghana, 2018 date: 2019-03-14 words: 4095 flesch: 44 summary: Even though the WHO's standards for influenza surveillance alluded to the possibility of resource limitation hindering achievement of all influenza surveillance system objectives, it advocates for influenza surveillance systems capable of collecting the minimum amount of data needed for decision making [5] . Morb Mortal Wkly Rep Strategy to enhance influenza surveillance worldwide A summary of influenza surveillance systems in Australia Influenza surveillance in Europe: establishing epidemic thresholds by the Moving Epidemic Method Establishing seasonal and alert influenza thresholds in Cambodia using the WHO method: implications for effective utilization of influenza surveillance in the tropics and subtropics Exploring a proposed WHO method to determine thresholds for seasonal influenza surveillance World Health Organization. keywords: accra; antiviral; attributes; case; center; collected; data; days; definition; detection; disease; evaluation; facilities; forms; gar; ghana; global; greater; health; hospital; ili; ili surveillance; influenza; influenza surveillance; information; investigation; key; laboratory; like; nic; objectives; organization; outbreak; performance; period; positive; public; region; resistance; respiratory; response; results; sentinel; set; sites; specimen; surveillance; surveillance system; system; table; testing; thresholds; viruses; world cache: cord-263464-fdosch11.txt plain text: cord-263464-fdosch11.txt item: #13 of 38 id: cord-264140-5cxzc3z8 author: Tam, Clarence C. title: Epidemiology and Transmission of Respiratory Infections in Thai Army Recruits: A Prospective Cohort Study date: 2018-09-04 words: 4013 flesch: 40 summary: In the serology subset, the rate of influenza infection was 3.4 per 100 person-months; 58% of influenza infections resulted in clinical disease. Despite this, data from tropical settings, in which the epidemiology of influenza and other respiratory infections differs substantially from temperate settings, are limited. keywords: acute; adenovirus; antibiotics; army; assay; bacterial; baseline; camp; cases; clinical; colonization; data; disease; end; epidemiology; episodes; follow; high; human; illness; infections; influenza; military; multiplex; non; participants; pathogens; pcr; period; person; pneumoniae; positive; prescribed; rates; recruits; respiratory; risk; samples; settings; study; symptoms; throat; time; training; transmission; type; uri; viral; viruses; weeks cache: cord-264140-5cxzc3z8.txt plain text: cord-264140-5cxzc3z8.txt item: #14 of 38 id: cord-272878-6f0q661e author: Schnepf, Nathalie title: High Burden of Non-Influenza Viruses in Influenza-Like Illness in the Early Weeks of H1N1v Epidemic in France date: 2011-08-17 words: 4178 flesch: 40 summary: The interferon response circuit: induction and suppression by pathogenic viruses Situation épidémiologique de la bronchiolite Portrait of a year-old pandemic Detection of extensive cross-neutralization between pandemic and seasonal A/ H1N1 Influenza Viruses using a pseudotype neutralization assay Multiplex real-time PCR for detection of respiratory tract infections Frequent detection of viral coinfection in children hospitalized with acute respiratory tract infection using a real-time polymerase chain reaction Detection of multiple respiratory pathogens during primary respiratory infection: nasal swab versus nasopharyngeal aspirate using real-time polymerase chain reaction Prospective evaluation of a novel multiplex real-time PCR assay for detection of fifteen respiratory pathogens-duration of symptoms significantly affects detection rate Improving the clinical diagnosis of influenza-a comparative analysis of new influenza A (H1N1) cases Molecular diagnosis of respiratory viruses Detection of respiratory viruses by molecular methods Comprehensive diagnostics for respiratory virus infections after transplantation or after potential exposure to swine flu A/H1N1: what else is out there? Another possible explanation is better prevention behaviour about respiratory infections as recommended by a national campaign including recommendations for hands washing after sneezing and the use of mask [1] . keywords: acute; age; assay; associated; cases; clinical; cough; data; detection; epidemic; fever; figure; france; frequency; frequent; general; h1n1v; high; higher; ili; illness; infected; infections; influenza; like; molecular; multiplex; negative; network; non; old; overall; pandemic; pathogens; patients; pcr; positive; rate; real; respiratory; results; rhv; samples; seasonal; single; sls; spread; surveillance; symptoms; table; time; trs; viral; viruses; week; years cache: cord-272878-6f0q661e.txt plain text: cord-272878-6f0q661e.txt item: #15 of 38 id: cord-275605-mbiojk39 author: Benkouiten, Samir title: Clinical respiratory infections and pneumonia during the Hajj pilgrimage: A systematic review date: 2018-12-04 words: 5820 flesch: 42 summary: The prevalence of acute respiratory symptoms and role of protective measures among Malaysian hajj pilgrims The association between pre-morbid conditions and respiratory tract manifestations amongst Malaysian Hajj pilgrims The inevitable Hajj cough: surveillance data in French pilgrims High prevalence of common respiratory viruses and no evidence of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in Hajj pilgrims returning to Ghana Respiratory viruses and bacteria among pilgrims during the Acquisition of Streptococcus pneumoniae carriage in pilgrims during the 2012 Hajj Pilot randomised controlled trial to test effectiveness of facemasks in preventing influenza-like illness transmission among Australian hajj pilgrims in 2011 Lack of MERS coronavirus but prevalence of influenza virus Circulation of respiratory viruses among pilgrims during the 2012 Hajj pilgrimage Lack of nasal carriage of novel corona virus (HCoV-EMC) in French Hajj pilgrims returning from the Hajj 2012, despite a high rate of respiratory symptoms Serological study of Bordetella Pertussis, Mycoplasma Pneumonia and Chlamydia Pneumonia in Iranian hajj pilgrims with prolonged cough illnesses: a follow-up study The prevalence and preventive measures of the respiratory illness among Malaysian pilgrims in 2013 Hajj season Influenza like illness (ILI): prevalence and preventive practices among Indian Haj pilgrims of Karnataka Impact of the Hajj on pneumococcal transmission Mass gathering and globalization of respiratory pathogens during the 2013 Hajj Viral respiratory infections among Hajj pilgrims in 2013 Acute febrile respiratory infection symptoms in Australian Hajjis at risk of exposure to Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus Relative risk for influenza like illness in French Hajj pilgrims compared to non-Hajj attending controls during the 2009 influenza pandemic Patterns of diseases and preventive measures among domestic hajjis from Central Patterns of diseases and preventive measures among domestic hajjis from 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cohort study international Pandemic 2009 influenza A (H1N1) infection among 2009 Hajj Pilgrims from Southern Iran: a real-time RT-PCR-based study Health related experiences among international pilgrims departing through King Abdul Aziz international airport Effects of flu vaccine, solely or accompanied by pneumovax-23 vaccine on clinical consequences of the respiratory diseases among Iranian pilgrims in Hajj Influenza among U.K. pilgrims to hajj Medical problems of Pakistani pilgrims in Saudi Arabia Impact of pH1N1 influenza A infections on the otolaryngology, head and neck clinic during hajj Pattern of diseases among visitors to Mina health centers during the Hajj season, 1429 H (2008 G) Pattern of diseases among visitors to Mina health centers during the Hajj season Road map of an ear, nose, and throat clinic during the 2008 hajj in makkah, Saudi arabia Causes of hospitalization of pilgrims in the Hajj season of the Islamic year Pattern of surgical and medical diseases among pilgrims attending Alnoor hospital makkah Infections in travellers returning to Turkey from the Arabian peninsula: a retrospective cross-sectional multicenter study Clinical and temporal patterns of severe pneumonia causing critical illness during Hajj Severe sepsis and septic shock at the Hajj: etiologies and outcomes Pattern of diseases among visitors of health care facilities in Madinah during Hajj season, 1428 H (2007 G) Causes of admission to intensive care units in the Hajj period of the Islamic year 1424 Pattern of medical diseases and determinants of prognosis of hospitalization during Muslim pilgrimage Hajj in a tertiary care hospital. METHOD: The MEDLINE/PubMed and Scopus databases were searched for all relevant papers published prior to February 2018 that evaluated the prevalence of clinical symptoms of respiratory infections, including pneumonia, among Hajj pilgrims, as well as their influenza and pneumococcal vaccination status. keywords: acute; arabia; care; clinical; cohort; common; conditions; cough; data; definition; different; diseases; fever; french; hajj; hajj pilgrims; health; hemisphere; hospital; ili; illness; infections; influenza; like; major; malaysian; mass; measures; mecca; medical; mina; myalgia; non; nose; papers; patients; pattern; pilgrimage; pilgrims; pneumococcal; pneumonia; prevalence; rates; recent; reported; respiratory; results; review; risk; saudi; season; sore; southern; studies; study; subjective; surveillance; symptoms; syndromic; throat; tract; use; vaccination; vaccine cache: cord-275605-mbiojk39.txt plain text: cord-275605-mbiojk39.txt item: #16 of 38 id: cord-282668-bs634hti author: Niang, Mbayame Ndiaye title: Respiratory viruses in patients with influenza-like illness in Senegal: Focus on human respiratory adenoviruses date: 2017-03-22 words: 4627 flesch: 42 summary: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis version 6.0 Epidemiology of respiratory viral infections in two long-term refugee camps in Kenya Viral etiology and seasonality of influenza-like illness in Gabon Epidemiology of respiratory viral infection using multiplex rt-PCR in Laboratory Surveillance of Influenza-Like Illness in Seven Teaching Hospitals The clinical and etiological characteristics of influenza-like illness (ILI) in outpatients in Temporal changes in respiratory adenovirus serotypes circulating in the greater Toronto area Adenovirus respiratory tract infections in Peru Sentinel surveillance of influenza-like illness in two hospitals in Respiratory viral infections during the 2009-2010 winter season in Central England, UK: incidence and patterns of multiple virus co-infections Viral etiology of severe acute respiratory infections in hospitalized children in Cameroon The role of respiratory viral infections among children hospitalized for community-acquired pneumonia in a developing country Respiratory Virus Detection and Clinical Diagnosis in Children Attending Day Care Surveillance for severe acute respiratory infections in Southern Arizona Epidemiology of human respiratory viruses in children with acute respiratory tract infections in Jinan, China Respiratory viral infection in lower airways of asymptomatic children Viral and Other Infections of the Human Respiratory Tract The epidemiology of adenovirus infections in Greater Manchester, UK 1982-96 Estimates of world-wide distribution of child deaths from acute respiratory infections Viral infections of the lower respiratory tract: old viruses, new viruses, and the role of diagnosis Molecular identification of adenoviruses associated with respiratory infection in Egypt from Adenovirus infection in children with acute lower respiratory tract infections in Beijing, China Feigin RD, Cherry JD. keywords: activity; acute; adenovirus; age; analysis; bootstrap; cases; characterization; children; china; circulation; clinical; common; data; detection; different; disease; dna; epidemiology; fatal; genome; group; hadv; hexon; high; higher; human; ili; illness; infected; infections; influenza; isolates; kit; like; lower; molecular; network; patients; pcr; phylogenetic; pneumonia; positive; rates; respiratory; results; samples; seasonality; senegal; senegalese; sentinel; sequence; sequencing; serotypes; severe; species; strains; studies; study; surveillance; tract; type; value; viral; viruses; years cache: cord-282668-bs634hti.txt plain text: cord-282668-bs634hti.txt item: #17 of 38 id: cord-286837-j2sqs20q author: Koetsier, Antonie title: Do Intensive Care Data on Respiratory Infections Reflect Influenza Epidemics? date: 2013-12-31 words: 4530 flesch: 45 summary: We explored whether ICU data reflect influenza like illness (ILI) activity in the general population, and whether ICU respiratory infections can predict influenza epidemics. In addition, ICU data of the first three years was used to build three regression models to predict the start and end of influenza epidemics in the years thereafter, one to three weeks ahead. keywords: admissions; average; care; current; data; epidemics; gee; general; hospital; icu; icu admissions; icu data; ili; ili incidence; illness; incidence; increases; infection; influenza; information; laboratory; like; longer; medical; models; netherlands; nice; number; patients; percentage; period; population; registry; regression; respiratory; respiratory infection; sari; seasonal; selection; sentinel; severe; study; surveillance; time; value; variables; week; weekly; years cache: cord-286837-j2sqs20q.txt plain text: cord-286837-j2sqs20q.txt item: #18 of 38 id: cord-288372-48wao8a0 author: Dia, Ndongo title: Respiratory viruses associated with patients older than 50 years presenting with ILI in Senegal, 2009 to 2011 date: 2014-04-08 words: 3874 flesch: 50 summary: The impact of influenza on the health and health care utilisation of elderly people Influenza-related hospitalisation and death in Australians aged 50 years and older New respiratory viruses and the elderly Mortality associated with influenza and respiratory syncytial virus in the United States Surveillance of 16 respiratory viruses in patients with influenza-like illness in Nanjing Current research on influenza and other respiratory viruses: II international symposium Aetiology of influenza-like illness in adults includes parainfluenzavirus type 4 Acute viral infections of upper respiratory tract in elderly people living in the community: comparative, prospective, population based study of disease burden Influenza A/H1N1 2009 pandemic and respiratory virus infections The post-infection outcomes of influenza and acute respiratory infection in patients above 50 years of age in Japan: an observational study Characterization of an avian influenza A (H5N1) virus isolated from a child with a fatal respiratory illness Epidemiology of 2009 pandemic influenza a (H1N1) deaths in the United States Outbreaks of 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) among long-term-care facility residents-three states Nationwide surveillance of 18 respiratory viruses in patients with influenza-like illnesses: a pilot feasibility study in the French Sentinel network Rates of hospitalizations for respiratory syncytial virus, human metapneumovirus, and influenza virus in older adults Fields Virology Viral respiratory infections in elderly patients and patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease A subregional analysis of epidemiologic and genetic characteristics of influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 in Africa Respiratory viruses in children admitted to hospital intensive care units: evaluating the CLART1 150 viruses were detected: influenza viruses (44.7%) and rhinoviruses (26.7%) were the most prevalent. keywords: adults; age; associated; authors; cases; clinical; detection; diversity; elderly; group; high; human; ili; illness; infections; influenza; kit; like; number; old; older; pandemic; patients; pcr; peak; people; period; pharyngeal; positive; present; prevalence; previous; respiratory; respiratory viruses; results; rhinoviruses; rna; rsv; samples; senegal; sentinel; studies; study; surveillance; symptoms; syncytial; viral; viruses; years cache: cord-288372-48wao8a0.txt plain text: cord-288372-48wao8a0.txt item: #19 of 38 id: cord-289017-vwye3pk9 author: Comach, Guillermo title: Sentinel Surveillance of Influenza-Like Illness in Two Hospitals in Maracay, Venezuela: 2006–2010 date: 2012-09-11 words: 6275 flesch: 44 summary: Influenza viruses, including pandemic H1N1 2009, were the most frequently detected pathogens, accounting for 67.4% (97/144) of the viruses detected. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: Influenza viruses were the most commonly detected viral organisms among patients with acute febrile respiratory illnesses presenting at two hospitals in Maracay, Venezuela. keywords: acute; adenovirus; adults; age; america; analysis; ari; cases; central; children; clinical; countries; data; detection; different; distribution; epidemiology; figure; findings; group; h3n2; hbov; hcm; health; higher; hmpv; hospitals; human; identification; ili; illness; infection; influenza; influenza viruses; information; isolation; like; lower; maracay; methods; number; old; older; pandemic; parainfluenza; participants; patients; pcr; period; ph1n1; population; proportion; prospective; protocol; rate; respiratory; respiratory viruses; rsv; samples; seasonal; sentinel; similar; south; specimens; step; studies; study; subjects; surveillance; table; time; tropical; venezuela; viral; viruses; years cache: cord-289017-vwye3pk9.txt plain text: cord-289017-vwye3pk9.txt item: #20 of 38 id: cord-297609-6g39lu1y author: Wertheim, Heiman F L title: Viral and atypical bacterial aetiologies of infection in hospitalised patients admitted with clinical suspicion of influenza in Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia date: 2015-10-13 words: 4307 flesch: 40 summary: Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses Published by Viral etiology of acute lower respiratory tract infections in hospitalized young children in Northern Taiwan Respiratory viral infections detected by multiplex PCR among pediatric patients with lower respiratory tract infections seen at an urban hospital in Delhi from Aetiological role of viral and bacterial infections in acute adult lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) in primary care Human bocavirus-the first 5 years High frequency of human bocavirus 1 DNA in infants and adults with lower acute respiratory infection Human bocavirus: a novel parvovirus epidemiologically associated with pneumonia requiring hospitalization in Thailand Atypical bacterial pathogen infection in children with acute bronchiolitis in northeast Thailand Acute bronchitis in the community: clinical features, infective factors, changes in pulmonary function and bronchial reactivity to histamine An Asian study on the prevalence of atypical respiratory pathogens in communityacquired pneumonia First report of human psittacosis in Vietnam a clinical virological and epidemiological analysis The investigators were involved in all aspects including protocol design, study execution and oversight and the writing of this publication. The low number of detected influenza viruses demonstrates a low benefit for empirical oseltamivir therapy, unless during an influenza outbreak. keywords: acute; admission; aetiology; age; analysis; approval; asia; atypical; bacterial; bocavirus; children; clinical; countries; data; days; detection; disease; duration; final; hospitalisation; hospitalised; human; icu; ili; indonesia; infections; influenza; iqr; lower; median; nguyen; pathogens; patients; pcr; pneumoniae; proportion; rates; reading; respiratory; rhinovirus; sea; sex; sites; specimens; studies; study; table; testing; thailand; time; tract; type; version; vietnam; viral; viruses; years cache: cord-297609-6g39lu1y.txt plain text: cord-297609-6g39lu1y.txt item: #21 of 38 id: cord-305460-wln758og author: Alqahtani, Amani Salem title: Tracking Australian Hajj Pilgrims’ Health Behavior before, during and after Hajj, and the Effective Use of Preventive Measures in Reducing Hajj-Related Illness: A Cohort Study date: 2020-05-04 words: 5394 flesch: 47 summary: This cohort study captured and compared the health behavior, knowledge, attitudes and practices of Australian Hajj pilgrims regarding preventative measures against communicable diseases throughout the course of Hajj travel (before, during and after the journey). Is it correlated with vaccine uptake? Health related experiences among international pilgrims departing through King Abdul Aziz international airport The prevalence and preventive measures of the respiratory illness among Malaysian pilgrims in 2013 hajj season Changes in the prevalence of influenza-like illness and influenza vaccine uptake among Hajj pilgrims: A 10-year retrospective analysis of data Influenza vaccine effectiveness among Hajj pilgrims: A test-negative case-control analysis of data from different Hajj years Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial to Test Effectiveness of Facemasks in Preventing Influenza-like Illness Transmission among Australian Hajj Pilgrims in 2011 Travel Reported by Pilgrims From Marseille, France Before and After the 2010 Hajj: keywords: associated; australian; behavior; cough; countries; data; days; diseases; effectiveness; factors; fever; figure; hajj; hajj pilgrims; hand; health; hygiene; ili; illness; infections; influenza; knowledge; level; likely; measures; nose; participants; pilgrimage; pilgrims; pneumococcal; preventive; rate; reported; respiratory; return; risk; runny; saudi; sore; studies; study; symptoms; table; throat; travel; uptake; use; vaccination; vaccine; vomiting; years cache: cord-305460-wln758og.txt plain text: cord-305460-wln758og.txt item: #22 of 38 id: cord-305473-w30hsr4m author: Jiang, Lili title: Detection of viral respiratory pathogens in mild and severe acute respiratory infections in Singapore date: 2017-02-20 words: 4976 flesch: 35 summary: Decision analysis of empirical antiviral treatment of influenza virus infection versus treatment based on rapid test results Summer influenza outbreak in a home for the elderly: application of preventive measures Oseltamivir Ring Prophylaxis for Containment of 2009 H1N1 Influenza Outbreaks Influenza in the acute hospital setting Better Tests, Better Care: Improved Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases Performance of case definitions for influenza surveillance Clinical symptoms cannot predict influenza infection during the 2013 influenza season in Bavaria Molecular diagnosis of respiratory virus infections Advances in diagnosis of respiratory virus infections Influenza and other respiratory virus infections in outpatients with medically attended acute respiratory infection during the 2011-12 influenza season Comparison of multiplex PCR assays and conventional techniques for the diagnostic of respiratory virus infections in children admitted to hospital with an acute respiratory illness Performance of diagnostic tests to detect respiratory viruses in older adults Pathogen chip for respiratory tract infections Detection of influenza virus infection using two PCR methods Viral load dynamics in adult patients with A(H1N1)pdm09 influenza Association of the CT values of real-time PCR of viral upper respiratory tract infection with clinical severity, Kenya Correlation of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 viral load with disease severity and prolonged viral shedding in children Virus shedding after human rhinovirus infection in children, adults and patients with hypogammaglobulinaemia Comparison of severely ill patients with influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 infection during the pandemic and post-pandemic periods in Singapore Use of healthcare worker sickness absenteeism surveillance as a potential early warning system for influenza epidemics in acute care hospitals Seasonal trends of viral respiratory tract infections in the tropics Development of a real-time reverse transcriptase PCR assay for type A influenza virus and the avian H5 and H7 hemagglutinin subtypes Evaluation of PCR testing of ethanol-fixed nasal swab specimens as an augmented surveillance strategy for influenza virus and adenovirus identification Detection by PCR declined with days post-onset for influenza virus; decrease was faster for community-ARI than for inpatient-ARI. keywords: acute; age; analysis; ari; assays; available; case; causes; clinical; cohort; community; criteria; days; definitions; detection; diagnosis; episodes; fig; health; historical; human; ili; illness; indications; infections; influenza; inpatient; likely; medical; mild; mrt; negative; non; older; onset; panel; participants; pathchip; pathogens; pcr; performance; positive; post; proportion; respiratory; samples; sensitivity; settings; severe; srt; study; surveillance; table; temperature; value; viral; viruses; years cache: cord-305473-w30hsr4m.txt plain text: cord-305473-w30hsr4m.txt item: #23 of 38 id: cord-307674-4fb5xnil author: Weaver, Anne M. title: Household‐level risk factors for secondary influenza‐like illness in a rural area of Bangladesh date: 2017-01-05 words: 4931 flesch: 43 summary: We recruited index‐case patients with ILI – fever (<5 years); fever, cough or sore throat (≥5 years) – from health facilities, collected information on household factors and conducted syndromic surveillance among household contacts for 10 days after resolution of index‐case patients’ symptoms. We evaluated the associations between household factors at baseline and secondary ILI among household contacts using negative binomial regression, accounting for clustering by household. keywords: acute; adult; age; air; analysis; bangladesh; biomass; burden; case; children; compound; contacts; control; countries; data; days; disease; exposure; factors; handwashing; health; high; home; household; ili; illness; income; index; individuals; indoor; infections; influenza; latrine; level; like; low; members; models; pathogens; patient; people; pollution; respiratory; results; risk; secondary; secondary ili; shared; sharing; smoke; smoking; study; symptoms; tobacco; transmission; urban; water; years cache: cord-307674-4fb5xnil.txt plain text: cord-307674-4fb5xnil.txt item: #24 of 38 id: cord-309860-otx45b8x author: Conway, Nicholas T. title: Clinical Predictors of Influenza in Young Children: The Limitations of “Influenza-Like Illness” date: 2012-09-03 words: 3742 flesch: 40 summary: Influenza disease surveillance usually includes a combination of community-and hospital-based syndromic surveillance and routinely collected data concerning morbidity and mortality, with only some including laboratory confirmation of influenza infection. Influenza-like illness is a poor predictor of actual influenza infection in adults, despite attempts to improve the accuracy of the definition [8] , but there is limited data on the reliability of ILI in predicting influenza infection in children keywords: absence; accuracy; acute; age; children; clinical; cough; data; definition; diagnostic; disease; fever; group; history; ili; illness; infection; influenza; like; model; number; old; parental; parents; pediatric; poor; population; positive; predictors; presence; respiratory; sensitive; sensitivity; significant; specificity; study; subjects; surveillance; symptoms; temperature; testing; tests; vaccination; vaccine; value; variables; virus; wheeze; years; young cache: cord-309860-otx45b8x.txt plain text: cord-309860-otx45b8x.txt item: #25 of 38 id: cord-310956-qwe4ndvb author: Qian, Yan‐Hua title: Attempted early detection of influenza A (H1N1) pandemic with surveillance data of influenza‐like illness and unexplained pneumonia date: 2011-04-18 words: 3705 flesch: 48 summary: Emerging infections: pandemic influenza World now at the start of 2009 influenza pandemic Mortality from pandemic A ⁄ H1N1 2009 influenza in England: public health surveillance study Guideline for prevention and control of influenza Statistical quality control methods in infection control and hospital epidemiology, Part II: chart use, statistical properties, and research issues Statistical quality control methods in infection control and hospital epidemiology, part I: introduction and basic theory Study on early warning based on influenza surveillance data in Guangdong province Methods for current statistical analysis of excess pneumonia-influenza deaths Time-Series Forecasting Use and interpretation of statistical quality control charts Influenza-associated hospitalizations in the United States Impact of influenza vaccination on seasonal mortality in the US elderly population Can syndromic thresholds provide early warning of national influenza outbreaks? Methods for monitoring influenza surveillance data Trends and Directions of Global Public Health Surveillance The impact of influenza epidemics on hospitalizations Value of ICD-9-coded chief complaints for detection of epidemics Performance of a syndromic system for influenza based on the activity of general practitioners, France Situational uses of syndromic surveillance Sensitivity, specificity and predictive values of health service based indicators for the surveillance of influenza a epidemics Comparing aberration detection methods with simulated data A simulation model for assessing aberration detection methods used in public health surveillance for systems with limited baselines Review of an influenza surveillance system, Beijing, People's Republic of China Disease surveillance using a hidden Markov model The emerging science of very early detection of disease outbreaks The ILI system was implemented for influenza surveillance, and the UP system was designed to track lower respiratory illness with pneumonia symptoms. keywords: average; case; chart; china; control; data; detection; disease; early; epidemic; figure; general; h1n1; higher; hospitals; ili; illness; influenza; local; method; outbreak; pandemic; patient; peak; people; pneumonia; population; proportion; regression; respiratory; riwf; sentinel; serfling; specificity; statistical; study; surveillance; surveillance data; system; threshold; time; trend; week; wuxi; year cache: cord-310956-qwe4ndvb.txt plain text: cord-310956-qwe4ndvb.txt item: #26 of 38 id: cord-312493-wbhji81g author: Tay, Ee Laine title: Exploring a Proposed WHO Method to Determine Thresholds for Seasonal Influenza Surveillance date: 2013-10-11 words: 4305 flesch: 45 summary: Flu Activity & Surveillance: Weekly US Influenza Surveillance Report Weekly Influenza Surveillance Overview In: Control Establishing thresholds for influenza surveillance in Victoria Can syndromic thresholds provide early warning of national influenza outbreaks? 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Detecting the start of an influenza outbreak using exponentially weighted moving average charts Overview of Influenza Surveillance in the United States Laboratory-supported influenza surveillance in Victorian sentinel general practices Estimation of influenza vaccine effectiveness from routine surveillance data A medical locum service as a site for sentinel influenza surveillance Influenza-like illness surveillance using a deputising medical service corresponds to surveillance from sentinel general practices Laboratory diagnosis and surveillance of human respiratory viruses by PCR in H1N1 swine origin influenza infection in the United States and Europe in 2009 may be similar to H1N1 seasonal influenza infection in two Australian states in A comparison of data sources for the surveillance of seasonal and pandemic influenza in Victoria Influenza surveillance in Australia: we need to do more than count The use of thresholds to describe levels of influenza activity An Analysis of Variance Test for Normality (Complete Samples) Improving the Estimation of Influenza-Related Mortality Over a Seasonal Baseline Predicting the epidemic sizes of influenza A/H1N1, A/H3N2, and B: a statistical method The significance of increased influenza notifications during spring and summer of 2010-11 in Australia Pandemic influenza H1N1 2009 infection in Victoria, Australia: no evidence for harm or benefit following receipt of seasonal influenza vaccine in 2009 The aim of this study was to explore the feasibility of the WHO method for the calculation of influenza thresholds using a range of existing surveillance and laboratory data sources in one surveillance system. keywords: activity; admissions; alert; australia; average; composite; data; datasets; determined; disease; duration; end; general; gpss; health; historical; hospital; ili; influenza; influenza surveillance; inspection; intensity; laboratory; mean; median; method; mmds; number; onset; pandemic; peak; percentiles; positive; proportion; routine; season; seasonal; sentinel; service; start; surveillance; system; testing; thresholds; upper; use; vaed; victoria; week; weekly; year cache: cord-312493-wbhji81g.txt plain text: cord-312493-wbhji81g.txt item: #27 of 38 id: cord-318856-f0m3wuyj author: Hoogeveen, Martijn J. title: Can pollen explain the seasonality of flu-like illnesses in the Netherlands? date: 2020-10-22 words: 4703 flesch: 39 summary: We combined changes in flu-like incidence per 100K/Dutch residents (code: ILI) with pollen concentrations and meteorological data. We have not assumed delay effects for meteorological variables or pollen concentrations, so we have not calculated moving averages for other time series. keywords: 3wma; aerosol; allergenic; analysis; average; bio; changes; compound; concentrations; correlation; covid-19; cycle; datasets; dutch; effect; epidemics; flu; humidity; incidence; incubation; influenza; inhibitor; inverse; lag; level; like; like incidence; low; meteorological; model; netherlands; number; pandemic; period; pollen; predictive; predictor; radiation; relative; seasonality; significant; solar; stronger; study; temperature; threshold; time; total; value; variables; viruses; week; weekly; δili cache: cord-318856-f0m3wuyj.txt plain text: cord-318856-f0m3wuyj.txt item: #28 of 38 id: cord-321704-jozrgcq3 author: Tan, Xin Quan title: Respiratory viral pathogens among Singapore military servicemen 2009 – 2012: epidemiology and clinical characteristics date: 2014-04-15 words: 3863 flesch: 44 summary: respiratory viral panels for the diagnosis of respiratory viral infections in adults R: A language and environment for statistical computing Prevalence and seasonality of influenza-like illness in children Outbreak of pandemic influenza A (H1N1-2009) in Singapore Effectiveness of pandemic H1N1-2009 vaccination in reducing laboratory confirmed influenza infections among military recruits in tropical Singapore Broad spectrum respiratory pathogen analysis of throat swabs from military recruits reveals interference between rhinoviruses and adenoviruses Viral etiology of influenza-like illnesses in Evaluation of an influenza-like illness case definition in the diagnosis of influenza among patients with acute febrile illness in Cambodia Seasonal variations of 15 respiratory agents illustrated by the application of a multiplex polymerase chain reaction assay Rapid multiplex nested PCR for detection of respiratory viruses Influenza-like illness sentinel surveillance in Peru Nationwide surveillance of 18 respiratory viruses in patients with influenza-like illnesses: a pilot feasibility study in the French Sentinel Network Aetiology of influenza-like illness in adults includes parainfluenzavirus type 4 Respiratory viruses and influenza-like illness: a survey in the area of Rome Dual respiratory virus infections Respiratory viral infections during the 2009-2010 winter season in Central England, UK: incidence and patterns of multiple virus co-infections Relationship between humidity and influenza A viability in droplets and implications for influenza's seasonality Fever in respiratory virus infections Clinical signs and symptoms predicting influenza infection Differing symptom patterns in early pandemic vs seasonal influenza infections Predicting influenza infections during epidemics with use of a clinical case definition Understanding the symptoms of the common cold and influenza Influenza-like illness criteria were poorly related to laboratory-confirmed influenza in a sentinel surveillance study Clinical and financial benefits of rapid detection of respiratory viruses: an outcomes study Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take full advantage of: • Convenient online submission • As influenza viruses have accounted for only between 10.1% to 53.0% of all ILI cases [15] [16] [17] , it is important to understand the contribution of other respiratory pathogens to overall morbidity and to determine their epidemiological distribution and clinical presentation. keywords: a(h1n1)pdm09; adults; adv; agents; analysis; cases; characteristics; clinical; cough; cov; definition; differences; different; disease; etiologies; febrile; fever; fri; high; ili; illness; infections; influenza; laboratory; like; likely; military; mono; multiple; non; overall; pandemic; pathogens; patients; pcr; positive; possible; present; proportion; recruits; respiratory; seasonal; signs; similar; singapore; studies; study; surveillance; symptoms; tropical; vaccination; value; viral; viruses cache: cord-321704-jozrgcq3.txt plain text: cord-321704-jozrgcq3.txt item: #29 of 38 id: cord-325794-lir8ht2i author: Kinar, Y. title: Predicting individual risk for COVID19 complications using EMR data date: 2020-06-05 words: 3224 flesch: 49 summary: The other was directly derived from initial COVID-19 complications data. The other was directly derived from initial COVID-19 complications data. keywords: age; author; complications; copyright; covid-19; covid19; data; doi; emr; funder; holder; https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.03.20121574; ili; individuals; influenza; information; june; license; medrxiv; medrxiv preprint; model; mortality; patients; peer; permission; perpetuity; preprint; reuse; review; rights; risk; sex; version cache: cord-325794-lir8ht2i.txt plain text: cord-325794-lir8ht2i.txt item: #30 of 38 id: cord-334424-z7ygy25e author: McCaw, James M title: Household transmission of respiratory viruses – assessment of viral, individual and household characteristics in a population study of healthy Australian adults date: 2012-12-11 words: 4794 flesch: 37 summary: The lack of virological assessment of household secondary cases and the broad nature of the question used to establish the secondary case count in each house also contributes to uncertainty with regards to our assignment of temporally associated ILI to within-household transmission. key: cord-334424-z7ygy25e authors: McCaw, James M; Howard, Peter F; Richmond, Peter C; Nissen, Michael; Sloots, Theo; Lambert, Stephen B; Lai, Michael; Greenberg, Michael; Nolan, Terry; McVernon, Jodie title: Household transmission of respiratory viruses – assessment of viral, individual and household characteristics in a population study of healthy Australian adults date: 2012-12-11 journal: BMC Infect Dis DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-12-345 sha: doc_id: 334424 cord_uid: z7ygy25e BACKGROUND: keywords: acute; adults; analysis; case; characteristics; children; cohort; community; coronavirus; data; days; demographic; episodes; events; factors; h1n1; healthy; household; household transmission; human; identification; ili; illness; infection; influence; influenza; interval; logistic; members; model; novel; number; onset; pandemic; participant; poisson; presence; primary; questionnaire; regression; respiratory; risk; sample; secondary; serial; shap; size; statistical; status; study; sub; symptoms; transmission; trial; vaccination; vaccine; virus; viruses; years cache: cord-334424-z7ygy25e.txt plain text: cord-334424-z7ygy25e.txt item: #31 of 38 id: cord-336335-spap39b7 author: Silva, Denise R title: Respiratory viral infections and effects of meteorological parameters and air pollution in adults with respiratory symptoms admitted to the emergency room date: 2013-08-26 words: 4177 flesch: 41 summary: The contribution of influenza to combined acute respiratory infections, hospital admissions, and deaths in winter Excess hospital admissions for pneumonia and influenza in persons > or = 65 years associated with influenza epidemics in three English health districts: 1987-95 Community-acquired pneumonia Prospective epidemiologic survey of patients with community-acquired pneumonia requiring hospitalization in Switzerland Frequency of detection of respiratory viruses in the lower respiratory tract of hospitalized adults Incidência de infecc ßão viral do trato respirat orio em asma aguda atendida em sala de emergência Surveillance of respiratory virus infections in adult hospital admissions using rapid methods Are meteorological parameters associated with acute respiratory tract infections? Increased susceptibility to RSV infection by exposure to inhaled diesel engine emissions Ultrafine carbon black particles enhance respiratory syncitial virus-induced airway reactivity, pulmonary inflammation, and chemokine expression Updated world map of the K€ oppen-Geiger climate classification Influenza activity-United States and worldwide, 2007-08 season Influenza pandêmica (H1N1) 2009 13, 14 Because of the large impact respiratory virus infections have on morbidity and even mortality, it is important to understand whether and how meteorological factors and exposure to air pollutants could influence respiratory virus infections. keywords: acute; admissions; adults; air; arima; cases; climate; common; concentration; conditioning; data; days; disease; duration; effects; factors; frequency; higher; home; hospital; humidity; ifi; ili; indoor; infections; influenza; lower; mean; meteorological; model; mold; number; parameters; patients; pcr; period; pollutants; pollution; population; positive; prevalence; respiratory; rvi; sari; second; series; severe; study; sunshine; symptoms; temperature; time; transmission; variables; viral; virus; viruses; years cache: cord-336335-spap39b7.txt plain text: cord-336335-spap39b7.txt item: #32 of 38 id: cord-338674-tnnd1s57 author: Yin, J Kevin title: Pilot study of influenza vaccine effectiveness in urban Australian children attending childcare date: 2011-06-10 words: 3043 flesch: 44 summary: Sixty‐three children received influenza vaccine and 88 participated as controls. 3 Evidence for the effectiveness of influenza vaccine in children aged less than 24 months is limited and high quality, appropriately powered, randomised controlled trials are needed. keywords: aged; australia; centres; chain; childcare; children; control; data; day; dcc; direction; dose; effectiveness; efficacy; estimates; evidence; families; follow; healthy; human; ili; illness; infection; influenza; months; parents; point; polymerase; positive; protection; psc; reaction; real; respiratory; samples; study; swabs; symptoms; time; vaccinated; vaccination; vaccine; virus; viruses; weeks; young cache: cord-338674-tnnd1s57.txt plain text: cord-338674-tnnd1s57.txt item: #33 of 38 id: cord-341260-vxsbv8t9 author: Loubet, P. title: Clinical characteristics and outcome of respiratory syncytial virus infection among adults hospitalized with influenza-like illness in France date: 2017-04-30 words: 3602 flesch: 41 summary: Respiratory syncytial virus infection in elderly and high-risk adults Prevalence and clinical characteristics of human respiratory syncytial virus in Chinese adults with acute respiratory tract infection Medically attended respiratory syncytial virus infections in adults aged 50 years: clinical characteristics and outcomes Seasonal incidence of medically attended respiratory syncytial virus infection in a community cohort of adults 50 years old Morbidity and mortality among patients with respiratory syncytial virus infection: a 2-year retrospective review Community respiratory virus infections following lung transplantation Respiratory syncytial virus and other respiratory viral infections in older adults with moderate to severe influenza-like illness Risk factors for respiratory syncytial virus illness among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Evaluation of case definitions for estimation of respiratory syncytial virus associated hospitalizations among children in a rural community of northern India Pneumonia was more likely to occur in patients with RSV than in patients with RSV-negative ILI (44% (23/53) versus 26% (362/1393), p 0.006) or with influenza virus infection (44% versus 28% (157/560), p 0.02). keywords: adults; age; analysis; cancer; characteristics; chronic; circulation; clinical; days; disease; factors; failure; fluvac; hospital; ili; illness; immunosuppressive; infection; influenza; influenza virus; median; negative; patients; pcr; periods; pneumonia; respiratory; risk; rsv; rsv infection; seasons; stay; study; syncytial; treatment; underlying; virus; viruses; years cache: cord-341260-vxsbv8t9.txt plain text: cord-341260-vxsbv8t9.txt item: #34 of 38 id: cord-344070-17oac3bg author: Silverman, Justin D title: Using ILI surveillance to estimate state-specific case detection rates and forecast SARS-CoV-2 spread in the United States date: 2020-04-03 words: 5100 flesch: 52 summary: Many states, including Washington, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Colorado, New Jersey, and Louisiana, have had a recent surge in number of non-influenza ILI cases far in excess of seasonal norms. This assumption allows us to calculate the number of non-influenza ILI cases as The resulting time-seriesỹ it are shown in Figure S4 . keywords: april; author; available; case; clinical; copyright; counts; cov-2; covid; data; days; detection; doubling; epidemic; estimated; excess; figure; funder; growth; holder; ili; ilinet; infections; influenza; influenza ili; international; license; march; medrxiv; model; new; non; number; observed; onset; patients; perpetuity; preprint; prevalence; providers; rate; sars; seasonal; state; surge; surveillance; symptomatic; testing; time; version; week cache: cord-344070-17oac3bg.txt plain text: cord-344070-17oac3bg.txt item: #35 of 38 id: cord-345315-y3bdjnhg author: Dai, Yaoyao title: Identifying the outbreak signal of COVID-19 before the response of the traditional disease monitoring system date: 2020-10-01 words: 3331 flesch: 47 summary: [18] Timeliness and precision in the detection of infectious disease outbreaks from the information published on the web are crucial for prevention of their spread. Insights from different clinical settings Identification of terms for detecting early signals of emerging infectious disease outbreaks on the web. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture Use of Google Trends to investigate loss-of-smell-related searches during the COVID-19 outbreak Retrospective analysis of the possibility of predicting the COVID-19 outbreak from Internet searches and social media data, China, 2020. keywords: bsi; cases; china; chinese; coronavirus; cov-2; covid-19; data; december; detection; disease; early; emergence; epidemic; health; human; ili; infectious; infectious disease; influenza; information; internet; january; key; monitoring; new; novel; outbreak; patients; peak; pneumonia; potential; response; sars; search; searches; signals; study; surveillance; system; terms; traditional; transmission; unexplained; web; wuhan cache: cord-345315-y3bdjnhg.txt plain text: cord-345315-y3bdjnhg.txt item: #36 of 38 id: cord-347079-1zbsbcdd author: Silverman, Justin D. title: Using influenza surveillance networks to estimate state-specific prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in the United States date: 2020-06-22 words: 6244 flesch: 43 summary: If non-ILI patients were less likely to seek medical care, then we would expect that the number of patients complaining of other symptoms not typically associated with COVID-19 (for example vomiting) would also decrease compared to prior years. Studies of outpatient ILI have repeatedly demonstrated that confirmed influenza case rates underestimate disease burden, likely due to preferential testing of more severe cases [8, 14, 9, 13 ] . keywords: assumption; asymptomatic; behavior; care; case; clinical; clinical rate; confirmed; coronavirus; counts; cov-2; covid-19; data; date; days; death; detection; doubling; early; epidemic; estimates; excess; fatality; fig; growth; growth rate; health; ili; ili surge; individuals; infected; infections; influenza; influenza ili; lag; march; model; new; non; novel; number; onset; outpatient; patients; population; prevalence; prior; proportion; providers; rate; sars; seasonal; seeking; state; surge; surveillance; symptoms; syndromic; time; transmission; united; use; week; york cache: cord-347079-1zbsbcdd.txt plain text: cord-347079-1zbsbcdd.txt item: #37 of 38 id: cord-348061-ssjl2w7l author: Chamberlain, Samuel D title: Real-time detection of COVID-19 epicenters within the United States using a network of smart thermometers date: 2020-04-10 words: 2747 flesch: 44 summary: To calculate these forecast error rates, we compare CMU forecasts to CDC ILI, while comparing anomaly detection forecasts to thermometer-based ILI, given that these models are trained on different data sources. Similarly, following school closures in Miami-Dade County, real-time ILI values fell below anomalous levels by late March (Fig. S2) , though accounting for reduced influenza transmission leads to more anomaly detections (Fig. 2C ). keywords: anomalies; anomaly; author; available; cases; copyright; county; covid-19; data; detection; distancing; doi; fig; forecast; funder; holder; https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.06.20039909; ili; illness; incidence; influenza; international; international license; license; medrxiv; medrxiv preprint; network; outbreak; peer; perpetuity; preprint; real; social; thermometer; time cache: cord-348061-ssjl2w7l.txt plain text: cord-348061-ssjl2w7l.txt item: #38 of 38 id: cord-354143-p2ofapbd author: Hellferscee, Orienka title: Enterovirus genotypes among patients with severe acute respiratory illness, influenza‐like illness, and asymptomatic individuals in South Africa, 2012‐2014 date: 2017-07-06 words: 2944 flesch: 39 summary: We observed a high diversity of circulating EV genotypes (a total of 33 genotypes) from EV species A-D with high circulation rates for EV-B and EV-A compared to EV-C and EV-D. From our systematic surveillance across all age groups, the majority of patients testing positive for EV were <5 years of age. We identified high diversity among EVs circulating in hospitalized South African patients, 25 however it is unknown whether different EV genotypes are associated with mild or severe respiratory illness in South Africa. keywords: acute; africa; age; alignment; analysis; associated; association; asymptomatic; cases; circulating; controls; d68; different; disease; diversity; e30; enterovirus; genotypes; high; hiv; hospital; human; ili; illness; individuals; influenza; molecular; nucleotide; outbreak; patients; positive; respiratory; samples; sari; sequence; severe; south; species; specimens; strains; study; time; usa; viruses; vp1; years cache: cord-354143-p2ofapbd.txt plain text: cord-354143-p2ofapbd.txt