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ReviewAdvances in experimental medicine and biology2020

Epidemic Influenza Seasons from 2008 to 2018 in Poland: A Focused Review of Virological Characteristics.

Sainjargal Byambasuren, Iwona Paradowska-Stankiewicz, Lidia B Brydak

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Review in Advances in experimental medicine and biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sainjargal ByambasurenEASTMED Family Medicine, Acupuncture, Aesthetic Medicine, Warsaw, Poland.
Iwona Paradowska-StankiewiczDepartment of Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases and Surveillance, National Institute of Public Health - National Institute of Hygiene, Warsaw, Poland. istankiewicz@pzh.gov.pl.
Lidia B BrydakDepartment of Influenza Research, National Influenza Center at the National Institute of Public Health - National Institute of Hygiene in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
National Institute of Public Health · PLEastmed · PL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The objective of this review was to elaborate on changes in the virological characteristics of influenza seasons in Poland in the past decade. The elaboration was based on the international influenza surveillance system consisting of Sentinel and non-Sentinel programs, recently adopted by Poland, in which professionals engaged in health care had reported tens of thousands of cases of acute upper airway infections. The reporting was followed by the provision of biological specimens collected from patients with suspected influenza and influenza-like infection, in which the causative contagion was then verified with molecular methods. The peak incidence of influenza infections has regularly been in January-March each epidemic season. The number of tested specimens ranged from 2066 to 8367 per season from 2008/2009 to 2017/2018. Type A virus predominated in nine out of the ten seasons and type B virus of the Yamagata lineage in the 2017/2018 season. Concerning the influenza-like infection, respiratory syncytial virus predominated in all the seasons. There was a sharp increase in the proportion of laboratory confirmations of influenza infection from season to season in relation to the number of specimens examined, from 3.2% to 42.4% over the decade. The number of confirmations, enabling a prompt commencement of antiviral treatment, related to the number of specimens collected from patients and on the virological situation in a given season. Yet influenza remains a health scourge, with a dismally low yearly vaccination rate, which recently reaches just about 3.5% of the general population in Poland.

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SeasonsHumansInfluenza B virusInfluenza, HumanInfluenza VaccinesPolandVaccinationInfluenza VaccinesDiagnosticsEpidemic seasonsInfluenzaSentinel programSurveillanceVirological characteristics

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PMID31989546
PMCPMC7121751
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