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Community -and hospital laboratory-based surveillance for respiratory viruses

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Editor, Senior Moderator
Influenza Other Respir Viruses. 2016 Mar 14. doi: 10.1111/irv.12387. [Epub ahead of print]
[h=1]Community -and hospital laboratory-based surveillance for respiratory viruses.[/h] Zachariah P[SUP]1[/SUP], Whittier S[SUP]1,[/SUP][SUP]2[/SUP], Reed C[SUP]3[/SUP], LaRussa P[SUP]1[/SUP], Larson EL[SUP]1[/SUP], Vargas CY[SUP]1[/SUP], Saiman L[SUP]1,[/SUP][SUP]2[/SUP], Stockwell MS[SUP]1,[/SUP][SUP]2[/SUP].
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[h=3]Abstract[/h] Traditional surveillance for respiratory viruses relies on symptom detection and laboratory detection during medically attended encounters for acute respiratory infection/ influenza-like illness (ARI/ILI). Ecological momentary reporting using text messages is a novel method for surveillance. This study compares respiratory viral activity detected through longitudinal community-based surveillance using text message responses for sample acquisition and testing to respiratory viral activity obtained from hospital laboratory data from the same community. We demonstrate a significant correlation between community- and hospital laboratory-based surveillance for most respiratory viruses, although the relative proportions of viruses detected in the community and hospital differed significantly. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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