How to maintain surveillance for novel influenza A H1N1 when there are too many cases to count.
How to maintain surveillance for novel influenza A H1N1 when there are too many cases to count.
M. Lipsitch,F. Hayden,B. Cowling,G. Leung
2009 · DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61377-5
The Lancet · 92 Citations
TLDR
An alternative approach to maintaining quantitative assessment of the epidemic is proposed, combining illness surveillance for defi ned but non-specifi c syndromes such as acute respiratory illness or infl uenza-like illness with laboratory testing for pandemic H1N1 in a subset of cases.