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PLoS One
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Fuller, James A. ; Summers, Aimee ; Katz, Mark A. ; Lindblade, Kim A. ; Njuguna, Henry ; ... More +
Fuller, James A. ; Summers, Aimee ; Katz, Mark A. ; Lindblade, Kim A. ; Njuguna, Henry ; Arvelo, Wences ; Khagayi, Sammy ; Emukule, Gideon ; Linares-Perez, Nivaldo ; McCracken, John ; Nokes, D. James ; Ngama, Mwanajuma ; Kazungu, Sidi ; Mott, Joshua A. ; Olsen, Sonja J. ; Widdowson, Marc-Alain ; Feikin, Daniel R. Less -
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Background

Knowing the national disease burden of severe influenza in low-income countries can inform policy decisions around influenza treatment and prevention. We present a novel methodology using locally generated data for estimating this burden.

Methods and Findings

This method begins with calculating the hospitalized severe acute respiratory illness (SARI) incidence for children <5 years old and persons ≥5 years old from population-based surveillance in one province. This base rate of SARI is then adjusted for each province based on the prevalence of risk factors and healthcare-seeking behavior. The percentage of SARI with influenza virus detected is determined from provincial-level sentinel surveillance and applied to the adjusted provincial rates of hospitalized SARI. Healthcare-seeking data from healthcare utilization surveys is used to estimate non-hospitalized influenza-associated SARI. Rates of hospitalized and non-hospitalized influenza-associated SARI are applied to census data to calculate the national number of cases. The method was field-tested in Kenya, and validated in Guatemala, using data from August 2009–July 2011. In Kenya (2009 population 38.6 million persons), the annual number of hospitalized influenza-associated SARI cases ranged from 17,129–27,659 for children <5 years old (2.9–4.7 per 1,000 persons) and 6,882–7,836 for persons ≥5 years old (0.21–0.24 per 1,000 persons), depending on year and base rate used. In Guatemala (2011 population 14.7 million persons), the annual number of hospitalized cases of influenza-associated pneumonia ranged from 1,065–2,259 (0.5–1.0 per 1,000 persons) among children <5 years old and 779–2,252 cases (0.1–0.2 per 1,000 persons) for persons ≥5 years old, depending on year and base rate used. In both countries, the number of non-hospitalized influenza-associated cases was several-fold higher than the hospitalized cases.

Conclusions

Influenza virus was associated with a substantial amount of severe disease in Kenya and Guatemala. This method can be performed in most low and lower-middle income countries.


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Biology
Demography
Hospitalization
Humans
Incidence
Influenza, Human
Medicine
Research Article
Sentinel Surveillance
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

Source:
PLoS One. 2013; 8(2).
Document Type:
Journal Article
Place as Subject:
Guatemala ; Kenya
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CDC Public Access
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