Influenza-Like Illnesses in Senegal: Not Only Focus on Influenza Viruses
Influenza surveillance in African countries was initially restricted to the identification of circulating strains. In Senegal, the network has recently been enhanced (i) to include epidemiological data from Dakar and other regions and (ii) to extend virological surveillance to other respiratory viru...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3968133/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24675982 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0093227 |
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author | Dia, Ndongo Diene Sarr, Fatoumata Thiam, Diamilatou Faye Sarr, Tening Espié, Emmanuelle OmarBa, Ibrahim Coly, Malang Niang, Mbayame Richard, Vincent |
author_facet | Dia, Ndongo Diene Sarr, Fatoumata Thiam, Diamilatou Faye Sarr, Tening Espié, Emmanuelle OmarBa, Ibrahim Coly, Malang Niang, Mbayame Richard, Vincent |
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description | Influenza surveillance in African countries was initially restricted to the identification of circulating strains. In Senegal, the network has recently been enhanced (i) to include epidemiological data from Dakar and other regions and (ii) to extend virological surveillance to other respiratory viruses. Epidemiological data from the sentinel sites is transmitted daily by mobile phone. The data include those for other febrile syndromes similar to influenza-like illnesses (ILI), corresponding to integrated approach. Also, clinical samples are randomly selected and analyzed for influenza and other respiratory viruses. There were 101,640 declared visits to the 11 sentinel sites between week 11-2012 and week 35-2013; 22% of the visits were for fever syndromes and 23% of the cases of fever syndrome were ILI. Influenza viruses were the second most frequent cause of ILI (20%), after adenoviruses (21%) and before rhinoviruses (18%) and enteroviruses (15%). Co-circulation and co-infection were frequent and were responsible for ILI peaks. The first months of implementation of the enhanced surveillance system confirmed that viruses other the influenza make large contributions to influenza-like illnesses. It is therefore important to consider these etiologies in the development of strategies to reduce respiratory infections. More informative tools and research studies are required to assess the burden of respiratory infections in developing countries. |
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spelling | pubmed-39681332014-04-01 Influenza-Like Illnesses in Senegal: Not Only Focus on Influenza Viruses Dia, Ndongo Diene Sarr, Fatoumata Thiam, Diamilatou Faye Sarr, Tening Espié, Emmanuelle OmarBa, Ibrahim Coly, Malang Niang, Mbayame Richard, Vincent PLoS One Research Article Influenza surveillance in African countries was initially restricted to the identification of circulating strains. In Senegal, the network has recently been enhanced (i) to include epidemiological data from Dakar and other regions and (ii) to extend virological surveillance to other respiratory viruses. Epidemiological data from the sentinel sites is transmitted daily by mobile phone. The data include those for other febrile syndromes similar to influenza-like illnesses (ILI), corresponding to integrated approach. Also, clinical samples are randomly selected and analyzed for influenza and other respiratory viruses. There were 101,640 declared visits to the 11 sentinel sites between week 11-2012 and week 35-2013; 22% of the visits were for fever syndromes and 23% of the cases of fever syndrome were ILI. Influenza viruses were the second most frequent cause of ILI (20%), after adenoviruses (21%) and before rhinoviruses (18%) and enteroviruses (15%). Co-circulation and co-infection were frequent and were responsible for ILI peaks. The first months of implementation of the enhanced surveillance system confirmed that viruses other the influenza make large contributions to influenza-like illnesses. It is therefore important to consider these etiologies in the development of strategies to reduce respiratory infections. More informative tools and research studies are required to assess the burden of respiratory infections in developing countries. Public Library of Science 2014-03-27 /pmc/articles/PMC3968133/ /pubmed/24675982 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0093227 Text en © 2014 Dia et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Dia, Ndongo Diene Sarr, Fatoumata Thiam, Diamilatou Faye Sarr, Tening Espié, Emmanuelle OmarBa, Ibrahim Coly, Malang Niang, Mbayame Richard, Vincent Influenza-Like Illnesses in Senegal: Not Only Focus on Influenza Viruses |
title | Influenza-Like Illnesses in Senegal: Not Only Focus on Influenza Viruses |
title_full | Influenza-Like Illnesses in Senegal: Not Only Focus on Influenza Viruses |
title_fullStr | Influenza-Like Illnesses in Senegal: Not Only Focus on Influenza Viruses |
title_full_unstemmed | Influenza-Like Illnesses in Senegal: Not Only Focus on Influenza Viruses |
title_short | Influenza-Like Illnesses in Senegal: Not Only Focus on Influenza Viruses |
title_sort | influenza-like illnesses in senegal: not only focus on influenza viruses |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3968133/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24675982 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0093227 |
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