Approach towards surveillance-based diagnosis of acute respiratory illness in India : Expert recommendations

Copyright © 2024 Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved..

BACKGROUND: Emerging infectious diseases, often zoonotic, demand a collaborative "One-Health" surveillance approach due to human activities. The need for standardized diagnostic and surveillance algorithms is emphasized to address the difficulty in clinical differentiation and curb antimicrobial resistance.

OBJECTIVE: The present recommendations are comprehensive diagnostic and surveillance algorithm for ARIs, developed by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), which aims to enhance early detection and treatment with improved surveillance. This algorithm shall be serving as a blueprint for respiratory infections landscape in the country and early detection of surge of respiratory infections in the country.

CONTENT: The ICMR has risen up to the threat of emerging and re-emerging infections. Here, we seek to recommend a structured approach for diagnosing respiratory illnesses. The recommendations emphasize the significance of prioritizing respiratory pathogens based on factors such as the frequency of occurrence (seasonal or geographical), disease severity, ease of diagnosis and public health importance. The proposed surveillance-based diagnostic algorithm for ARI relies on a combination of gold-standard conventional methods, innovative serological and molecular techniques, as well as radiological approaches, which collectively contribute to the detection of various causative agents. The diagnostic part of the integrated algorithm can be dealt at the local microbiology laboratory of the healthcare facility with the few positive and negative specimens shipped to linked viral disease research laboratories (VRDLs) and other ICMR designated laboratories for genome characterisation, cluster identification and identification of novel agents.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:48

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Indian journal of medical microbiology - 48(2024) vom: 03. März, Seite 100548

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Manchanda, Vikas [VerfasserIn]
Muralidharan, Jayshree [VerfasserIn]
Nischal, Neeraj [VerfasserIn]
Aggarwal, Kshitij [VerfasserIn]
Gupta, Swati [VerfasserIn]
Gupta, Nivedita [VerfasserIn]
Velayudhan, Anoop [VerfasserIn]
Kaur, Harmanmeet [VerfasserIn]
Brijwal, Megha [VerfasserIn]
Chhabra, Mala [VerfasserIn]
Vishwanathan, Rajlakshmi [VerfasserIn]
Dhodapkar, Rahul [VerfasserIn]
Mahajan, Sanjay K [VerfasserIn]
Deol, Saumya [VerfasserIn]
Sekhar, Jerin C [VerfasserIn]
Mitra, Srestha [VerfasserIn]
Saxena, Sonal [VerfasserIn]
Kumar, Jyoti [VerfasserIn]
Garg, Anju [VerfasserIn]
Lodha, Rakesh [VerfasserIn]
Ravi, V [VerfasserIn]
Soneja, Manish [VerfasserIn]
Verghese, Valsan Philip [VerfasserIn]
Rodrigues, Camilla [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Acute respiratory illness
Diagnostic algorithm
ICMR
Journal Article
One health
Outbreaks

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Date Revised 04.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

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doi:

10.1016/j.ijmmb.2024.100548

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NLM368932427