| Titre : | Three-year (1999-2002) of epidemiological and virological surveillance of influenza in north-east Italy. (2004) |
| Auteurs : | F. ANSALDI ; P. BURGNICH ; C. CAMPELLO ; M. COMAR ; COPPOLA (N.) : ITA. Direzione Regionale della Sanità e delle Politiche Sociali. Friuli Venezia Giulia Region. ; P. D'AGARO ; G. DAL MOLIN ; D. DE FLORENTIIS ; S. FAVERO ; Irccs Burto Garofolo. Trieste. ITA ; University of Trieste. Uco Hygiene and Preventive Medicine. Department of Public Medicine Sciences. Trieste. ITA |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | European journal of epidemiology (vol. 19, n° 9, 2004) |
| Pagination : | 885-890 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Mots-clés : | Epidémiologie ; Surveillance ; Grippe ; Virose ; Infection ; Nord ; Italie ; Europe du Nord ; Europe |
| Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS HR0xnu8b. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. The results of the epidemiological and virological surveillance of influenza performed during the 1999/2000,2000/2001 and 2001/2002 seasons in the northeastern Italy were presented and the relationship between age-specific morbidity rates and circulating strains were discussed. The epidemiological findings pointed out a change in age distribution. During the 1999/2000 season, characterized by a circulation of viruses antigenically close to the vaccine strain, a similar incidence rate in the 0-14 and 15-64-year-old groups was observed, while during the 2001/2002 winter the virus infected mostly children. During 2001/2002 season, B type viruses predominated with at least three distinguishable molecular variants. In particular, B/Victoria/2/87-like viruses re-emerged after more than a decade, and the antibodies elicited by the vaccine strain and by the strains circulating in previous seasons were poor or not protecting. The accumulation of susceptible subjects in young age group during the 1990s, due to the lack of circulation of B/Victoria/2/87-like viruses, was responsible for the unusual morbidity in the 0-14 year group. No circulation of B/Victoria/2/87-like viruses was observed in>64-year-old group during 2001/2002 epidemic, probably due to a long-lasting immunity against viruses belonging to this lineage. |
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