BACKGROUND Surveillance of severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) in sentinel hospitals is recommended to estimate the burden of severe influenza-cases. Therefore, we monitored patients admitted with respiratory infections (RI) in 9 Berlin hospitals from 7.12.2009 to 12.12.2010 according to different case definitions (CD) and determined the proportion of cases with influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 (p...

Since 2003, Southern Vietnam has become the most serious affected area by various emerging diseases such as: A/H5N1, SARS, Rubella, etc. Therefore, the establishment of emerging disease surveillance is essential and necessary to provide scientific information for good understand on the emerging diseases and for effective outbreak response. A specific surveillance system for Severe Acute Respira...

Chui-Ping Yang,1,2,3,5 Shi-Biao Zheng,1,4 and Franco Nori1,2 1Advanced Science Institute, RIKEN, Wako-Shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan 2Physics Department, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1040, USA 3Department of Physics, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310036, China 4Department of Physics and State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Photocatalysis, Fuzhou Universi...

BACKGROUND There is limited information about the epidemiology of influenza in Africa. We describe the epidemiology and seasonality of influenza in Morocco from 1996 to 2009 with particular emphasis on the 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 influenza seasons. Successes and challenges of the enhanced surveillance system introduced in 2007 are also discussed. METHODS Virologic sentinel surveillance for in...

OBJECTIVES Although the public health significance of influenza in regions with a temperate climate has been widely recognized, information on influenza burden in tropical countries, including the Philippines, remains limited. We aimed to estimate influenza incidence rates for both outpatients and inpatients then characterized their demographic features. DESIGN An enhanced surveillance was pe...

BACKGROUND Understanding the burden of influenza-associated severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) is important for setting national influenza surveillance and vaccine priorities. Estimating influenza-associated SARI rates requires hospital-based surveillance data and a population-based denominator, which can be challenging to determine. OBJECTIVES We present an application of the World He...

Objective: To investigate whether or not reduction of thyroid volume during weight loss is related to adipocytokines and urinary iodine excretion in obese women. Subjects and Methods: 98 obese and 31 non-obese women consecutively admitted to the endocrinology and metabolism outpatient clinic of the School of Medicine, Akdeniz University were included in the study. Thyroid volume, thyroid functi...