Distribution of influenza virus types by age using case-based global surveillance data from twenty-nine countries, 1999-2014

BACKGROUND: Influenza disease burden varies by age and this has important public health implications. We compared the proportional distribution of different influenza virus types within age strata using surveillance data from twenty-nine countries during 1999-2014 (N=358,796 influenza cases).

METHODS: For each virus, we calculated a Relative Illness Ratio (defined as the ratio of the percentage of cases in an age group to the percentage of the country population in the same age group) for young children (0-4 years), older children (5-17 years), young adults (18-39 years), older adults (40-64 years), and the elderly (65+ years). We used random-effects meta-analysis models to obtain summary relative illness ratios (sRIRs), and conducted meta-regression and sub-group analyses to explore causes of between-estimates heterogeneity.

RESULTS: The influenza virus with highest sRIR was A(H1N1) for young children, B for older children, A(H1N1)pdm2009 for adults, and (A(H3N2) for the elderly. As expected, considering the diverse nature of the national surveillance datasets included in our analysis, between-estimates heterogeneity was high (I2>90%) for most sRIRs. The variations of countries' geographic, demographic and economic characteristics and the proportion of outpatients among reported influenza cases explained only part of the heterogeneity, suggesting that multiple factors were at play.

CONCLUSIONS: These results highlight the importance of presenting burden of disease estimates by age group and virus (sub)type.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2018

Erschienen:

2018

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:18

Enthalten in:

BMC infectious diseases - 18(2018), 1 vom: 08. Juni, Seite 269

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Caini, Saverio [VerfasserIn]
Spreeuwenberg, Peter [VerfasserIn]
Kusznierz, Gabriela F [VerfasserIn]
Rudi, Juan Manuel [VerfasserIn]
Owen, Rhonda [VerfasserIn]
Pennington, Kate [VerfasserIn]
Wangchuk, Sonam [VerfasserIn]
Gyeltshen, Sonam [VerfasserIn]
Ferreira de Almeida, Walquiria Aparecida [VerfasserIn]
Pessanha Henriques, Cláudio Maierovitch [VerfasserIn]
Njouom, Richard [VerfasserIn]
Vernet, Marie-Astrid [VerfasserIn]
Fasce, Rodrigo A [VerfasserIn]
Andrade, Winston [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Hongjie [VerfasserIn]
Feng, Luzhao [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Juan [VerfasserIn]
Peng, Zhibin [VerfasserIn]
Lara, Jenny [VerfasserIn]
Bruno, Alfredo [VerfasserIn]
de Mora, Doménica [VerfasserIn]
de Lozano, Celina [VerfasserIn]
Zambon, Maria [VerfasserIn]
Pebody, Richard [VerfasserIn]
Castillo, Leticia [VerfasserIn]
Clara, Alexey W [VerfasserIn]
Matute, Maria Luisa [VerfasserIn]
Kosasih, Herman [VerfasserIn]
Nurhayati [VerfasserIn]
Puzelli, Simona [VerfasserIn]
Rizzo, Caterina [VerfasserIn]
Kadjo, Herve A [VerfasserIn]
Daouda, Coulibaly [VerfasserIn]
Kiyanbekova, Lyazzat [VerfasserIn]
Ospanova, Akerke [VerfasserIn]
Mott, Joshua A [VerfasserIn]
Emukule, Gideon O [VerfasserIn]
Heraud, Jean-Michel [VerfasserIn]
Razanajatovo, Norosoa Harline [VerfasserIn]
Barakat, Amal [VerfasserIn]
El Falaki, Fatima [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Sue Q [VerfasserIn]
Lopez, Liza [VerfasserIn]
Balmaseda, Angel [VerfasserIn]
Moreno, Brechla [VerfasserIn]
Rodrigues, Ana Paula [VerfasserIn]
Guiomar, Raquel [VerfasserIn]
Ang, Li Wei [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Vernon Jian Ming [VerfasserIn]
Venter, Marietjie [VerfasserIn]
Cohen, Cheryl [VerfasserIn]
Badur, Selim [VerfasserIn]
Ciblak, Meral A [VerfasserIn]
Mironenko, Alla [VerfasserIn]
Holubka, Olha [VerfasserIn]
Bresee, Joseph [VerfasserIn]
Brammer, Lynnette [VerfasserIn]
Hoang, Phuong Vu Mai [VerfasserIn]
Le, Mai Thi Quynh [VerfasserIn]
Fleming, Douglas [VerfasserIn]
Séblain, Clotilde El-Guerche [VerfasserIn]
Schellevis, François [VerfasserIn]
Paget, John [VerfasserIn]
Global Influenza B Study group [VerfasserIn]
Thapa, Binay [Sonstige Person]
Zangmo, Sangay [Sonstige Person]
Vernet, Guy [Sonstige Person]
Bustos, Patricia [Sonstige Person]
Loyola, Patricio [Sonstige Person]
Ellis, Joanna [Sonstige Person]
Bella, Antonino [Sonstige Person]
Castrucci, Maria Rita [Sonstige Person]
Muratbayeva, Gulzhan [Sonstige Person]
Guillebaud, Julia [Sonstige Person]
Randrianasolo, Laurence [Sonstige Person]
Machado, Ausenda [Sonstige Person]
Pechirra, Pedro [Sonstige Person]
Cutter, Jeffery [Sonstige Person]
Lin, Raymond Tzer Pin [Sonstige Person]

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Themen:

Age distribution
H1N1 subtype
H3N2 subtype
Influenza
Influenza A virus
Influenza B virus
Journal Article
Meta-analysis

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Date Completed 23.04.2019

Date Revised 08.04.2022

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s12879-018-3181-y

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM285288024