The performance of different case definitions for severe influenza surveillance among HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected children aged <5 years in South Africa, 2011-2015

In 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) proposed a new severe influenza surveillance case definition, which has not been evaluated in a high human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence setting. Our study aimed to assess the performance of this proposed case definition in identifying influenza...

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Veröffentlicht in:	PloS one 2019-09, Vol.14 (9), p.e0222294
Hauptverfasser:	Ngobeni, Hetani, Tempia, Stefano, Cohen, Adam L, Walaza, Sibongile, Kuonza, Lazarus, Musekiwa, Alfred, von Gottberg, Anne, Hellferscee, Orienka, Wolter, Nicole, Treurnicht, Florette K, Moyes, Jocelyn, Naby, Fathima, Mekgoe, Omphile, Cohen, Cheryl
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Biology and Life Sciences Care and treatment Case-Control Studies Child, Preschool Children Coinfection - diagnosis Coinfection - epidemiology Coinfection - virology Confidence intervals Cough Cough - etiology Diagnosis Disease control Disease prevention Epidemiology Female Fever Fever - etiology Health aspects Health sciences HIV HIV infections HIV Infections - complications HIV Infections - epidemiology HIV patients Hospitalization Human immunodeficiency virus Humans Illnesses Infant Infection Infections Influenza Influenza, Human - diagnosis Influenza, Human - epidemiology Influenza, Human - etiology Laboratories Lung diseases Male Medicine and Health Sciences Meningitis Mortality Older people People and Places Performance assessment Physicians Polymerase chain reaction Population Surveillance - methods Prevalence studies (Epidemiology) Prospective Studies Public health Respiratory diseases Respiratory tract Respiratory tract diseases Reverse transcription Sensitivity Signs and symptoms South Africa - epidemiology Statistical analysis Surveillance Viruses
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Zusammenfassung:	In 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) proposed a new severe influenza surveillance case definition, which has not been evaluated in a high human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence setting. Our study aimed to assess the performance of this proposed case definition in identifying influenza among HIV-uninfected and HIV-infected children aged
ISSN:	1932-6203 1932-6203
DOI:	10.1371/journal.pone.0222294