Influenza Gateway

Welcome to BioMed Central's Influenza Gateway, highlighting the latest research from BioMed Central journals on influenza-related topics.

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Predicting the pathogenesis of influenza from genomic response: a step toward early diagnosis

Bortz and Garcia-Sastre highlight recent insights into the molecular events underlying host response to influenza virus that could allow early prediction of symptomatic or asymptomatic infection.

Genome Medicine 2011, 3:67
OMG U got flu? Analysis of shared health messages for bio-surveillance

Twitter updates could be used to detect emerging disease outbreaks according to this study, which found a correlation between 'self-protective behavior' in Tweets and WHO/NREVSS data for A(H1N1) during the 2009-2010 influenza season.

Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2011, 2(Suppl 5):S9
High success and low mortality rates with non-invasive ventilation in influenza A H1N1 patients in a tertiary hospital

Despite the controversies surrounding the use of non-invasive ventilation, five patients with acute respiratory failure due to influenza A H1N1 infection have been successfully treated with this procedure in a tertiary care hospital in Brazil.

BMC Research Notes 2011, 4:375
Are diagnostic and public health bacteriology ready to become branches of genomic medicine?

As next-generation sequencing technologies continue to evolve, Mark Pallen and Nicholas Loman muse on the impact of whole genome sequencing on diagnostic and public health microbiology.

Genome Medicine 2011, 3:53
Simulation of an SEIR infectious disease model on the dynamic contact network of conference attendees

The spread of infectious diseases can be modeled using data about face-to-face interactions among conference attendees obtained via radiofrequency identification devices, but model design should be considered carefully to properly inform the study and management of real epidemics.

BMC Medicine 2011, 9:87
Monitoring the level of government trust, risk perception and intention of the general public to adopt protective measures during the influenza A (H1N1) pandemic in the Netherlands

Higher levels of government trust are positively related to an intention to accept vaccination, but not to an intention to adopt protective measures such as extra hygienic precautions during the influenza A (H1N1) pandemic in the Netherlands.

BMC Public Health 2011, 11:575
During the summer 2009 outbreak of "swine flu" in Scotland what respiratory pathogens were diagnosed as H1N1/2009?

Clinicians frequently misdiagnosed common respiratory pathogens such as rhinovirus, parainfluenza or adenovirus, as H1N1 influenza during the 2009 outbreak in Scotland, highlighting the shortcomings of diagnosis based on a clinical algorithm and the potential inadequacies in treatment, infection control and public health surveillance.

BMC Infectious Diseases 2011, 11:192