(2014) Epidemiological survey on pandemic influenza a (H1N1) virus infection in Kurdistan province, Islamic Republic of Iran, 2009 Enquête épidémiologique sur l'infection par le virus de la grippe pandémique a(H1N1) dans la province du Kurdistan (république Islamique D'iran) en 2009. Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal.
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Abstract
This study evaluated the epidemiology of suspected cases of pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus infection in 2009-2010 in Kurdistan province, a frontier province of the Islamic Republic of Iran. A questionnaire covering demographic characteristics, clinical presentation and outcome, and history of exposure and travel was completed by patients attending health centres and hospitals in the province. Nasal and throat swabs were analysed by RT-PCR. A total of 1059 suspected cases were assessed; H1N1 influenza A was confirmed in 157 (14.8). The highest proportion of confirmed cases was 30.0, among children aged < 1 year. In multivariate analysis, previous contact with symptomatic influenza patients (OR = 2.17) and hospitalization (OR = 3.88) were the only significant risk factors for confirmed H1N1 infection. Age, sex, residency, presenting symptoms and history of national or international travel were not significant. Influenza A (H1N1) virus has spread in Islamic Republic of Iran; probably transmitted by travellers to Kurdistan.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | adult; aged; article; child; comparative study; disease surveillance; evaluation and follow up; female; fever; health care survey; health center; hospitalization; human; infant; Influenza virus A H1N1; Iran; major clinical study; male; middle aged; preschool child; questionnaire; real time polymerase chain reaction; reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction; rhinorrhea; risk factor; sore throat; very elderly; 2009 H1N1 influenza; medical history; nose smear; pain; pandemic influenza; throat culture; travel; virus transmission, Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Child; Child, Preschool; Female; Humans; Incidence; Infant; Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype; Influenza, Human; Iran; Iraq; Male; Middle Aged; Pandemics; Population Surveillance; Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; Travel; Young Adult |
| Page Range: | pp. 169-174 |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal |
| Volume: | 20 |
| Number: | 3 |
| Publisher: | World Health Organization |
| ISSN: | 10203397 |
| Depositing User: | مهندس جمال محمودپور |
| URI: | http://eprints.muk.ac.ir/id/eprint/990 |
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