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Analysis of Google Influenza-like-illness (ILI) search queries has shown a strongly correlated pattern with Center for Disease Control and Prevention seasonal ILI reporting data. Web and social media (WSM) provide another resource to detect increases in ILI. This paper evaluates trends in blog posts that discuss Influenza. The results of the analysis show Influenza-related blogging trends have ...

krvne æilice mogu izravno promatrati, oftalmoskopija lako i brzo otkriva æilne posljedice hipertenzije (6) (tablica 1). Ipak, pregled oËne pozadine u naπoj se sredini provodi izuzetno, a vrπe ga u pravilu samo oftalmolozi, iako bi ta vrijedna tehnika trebala biti dio svakodnevnoga dijagnostiËkog repertoara, kako internista ili neurologa, tako i obiteljskog lijeËnika. KliniËke posljedice naveden...

We analysed an 11-year dataset (1998-2009) of Influenza-Like Illness (ILI) that was based on surveillance of ∽23% of Israel's population. We examined whether the level of synchrony of ILI epidemics in Israel's 12 largest cities is high enough to view Israel as a single epidemiological unit. Two methods were developed to assess the synchrony: (1) City-specific attack rates were fitted to a simpl...

Estimation of influenza infection rates is important for determination of the extent of epidemic spread and for calculation of severity indicators. The authors compared estimated infection rates from paired and cross-sectional serologic surveys, rates of influenza like illness (ILI) obtained from sentinel general practitioners (GPs), and ILI samples that tested positive for influenza using data...

Internet-based syndromic monitoring of acute respiratory illness in the general population of Germany, In March 2011, the German sentinel surveillance system for influenza (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Influenza (AGI)) was complemented by an Internet-based syndro-mic monitoring system (GrippeWeb) for acute respiratory infections (ARI) and influenza-like-illness (ILI). To assess representativeness of Gri...

INTRODUCTION The case definition of influenza-like illness (ILI) is a powerful epidemiological tool during influenza epidemics. METHODS A prospective cohort study was conducted to evaluate the impact of two definitions used as epidemiological tools, in adults and children, during the influenza A H1N1 epidemic. Patients were included if they had upper respiratory samples tested for influenza b...

Population-based surveillance of influenza routinely relies on administrative medical encounter databases and ICD-9 codes. However, an assessment of the ICD-9 codes used for the Department of Defense (DoD) influenza-like illness (ILI) case definition has not been conducted since 2007. As coding practices may have changed over time, this analysis was done to determine the sensitivity, specificit...

AIMS To estimate excess morbidity during periods of influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) activity. METHODS Retrospective analysis of a sentinel practice network database in active and non-active virus periods. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES clinical diagnoses of new episodes of influenza-like illness (ILI), acute bronchitis, asthma, and otitis media. RESULTS The clinical diagnosis of IL...