Influenza surveillance in Europe: establishing epidemic thresholds by the Moving Epidemic Method

Vega, Tomás; Eugenio Lozano Alonso, José; J Meerhoff, T; Snacken, René; A. Mott, Joshua; Ortíz de Lejarazu, Raúl; Nunes, Baltazar

doi:10.1111/j.1750-2659.2012.00422.x

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Influenza surveillance in Europe: establishing epidemic thresholds by the Moving Epidemic Method

Published in Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses • Aug 16, 2012

Authors:

Tomás Vega

José Eugenio Lozano Alonso

T J Meerhoff

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Timely influenza surveillance is important to monitor influenza epidemics. OBJECTIVES: (i) To calculate the epidemic threshold for influenza-like illness (ILI) and acute respiratory infections (ARI) in 19 countries, as well as the thresholds for different levels of intensity. (ii) To eva...

Subject

Medicine

Epidemic model

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

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