The New School Absentees Reporting System for Pandemic Influenza A/H1N1 2009 Infection in Japan

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the new Japanese School Absentees Reporting System for Infectious Disease (SARSID) for pandemic influenza A/H1N1 2009 infection in comparison with the National epidemiological Surveillance of Infectious Disease (NESID). METHODS: We used data of 53,223 students (97.7%) in Takam...

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Autores principales: Suzue, Takeshi, Hoshikawa, Yoichi, Nishihara, Shuzo, Fujikawa, Ai, Miyatake, Nobuyuki, Sakano, Noriko, Yoda, Takeshi, Yoshioka, Akira, Hirao, Tomohiro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3281859/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22363458
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0030639
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Sumario:OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the new Japanese School Absentees Reporting System for Infectious Disease (SARSID) for pandemic influenza A/H1N1 2009 infection in comparison with the National epidemiological Surveillance of Infectious Disease (NESID). METHODS: We used data of 53,223 students (97.7%) in Takamatsu city Japan. Data regarding school absentees in SARSID was compared with that in NESID from Oct 13, 2009 to Jan 12, 2010. RESULTS: Similar trends were observed both in SARSID and NESID. However, the epidemic trend for influenza in SARSID was thought to be more sensitive than that in NESID. CONCLUSION: The epidemic trend for influenza among school-aged children could be easily and rapidly assessed by SARSID compared to NESID. SARSID might be useful for detecting the epidemic trend of influenza.

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