Scientific papers

Revisiting influenza-hospitalisation estimates from the Burden of Influenza and Respiratory Syncytial Virus Disease (BIRD) project using different extrapolation methods

John Paget, Sandra S Chaves, You Li, Harish Nair, Peter Spreeuwenberg

J Glob Health – 2024 Apr 5

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Respiratory syncytial virus in pediatric patients with severe acute respiratory infections in Senegal: findings from the 2022 sentinel surveillance season

Mamadou Malado Jallow, Moussa Moise Diagne, Samba Niang Sagne, Fatime Tall, Jean Baptisse Niokhor Diouf, Djibril Boiro, Marie Pedapa Mendy, Ndiendé Koba Ndiaye, Davy Kiori, Sara Sy, Déborah Goudiaby, Cheikh Loucoubar, Gamou Fall, Mamadou Aliou Barry & Ndongo Dia

Nature Portfolio – 2023

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Predictors of severity of influenza-related hospitalizations: Results from the Global Influenza Hospital Surveillance Network (GIHSN)

Lily E Cohen, Chelsea L Hansen, Melissa K Andrew, Shelly A McNeil, Philippe Vanhems, Jan Kyncl, Javier Díez Domingo, Tao Zhang, Ghassan Dbaibo, Victor Alberto Laguna-Torres, Anca Draganescu, Elsa Baumeister, Doris Gomez, Sonia M Raboni, Heloisa I G Giamberardino, Marta C Nunes, Elena Burtseva, Anna Sominina, Snežana Medić, Daouda Coulibaly, Afif Ben Salah, Nancy A Otieno, Parvaiz A Koul, Serhat Unal, Mine Durusu Tanriover, Marie Mazur, Joseph Bresee, Cecile Viboud, Sandra S Chaves

National Library of Medicine – 01 Aug 2023

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Global and national influenza-associated hospitalisation rates: Estimates for 40 countries and administrative regions

John Paget, Lisa Staadegaard, Xin Wang, You Li, Tayma van Pomeren, Jojanneke van Summeren, Michel Dückers, Sandra S Chaves, Emily K Johnson, Cédric Mahé, Harish Nair, Cecile Viboud, Peter Spreeuwenberg

J Glob Health – 2023 Jan 27

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Age Differences in Comorbidities, Presenting Symptoms, and Outcomes of Influenza Illness Requiring Hospitalization: A Worldwide Perspective From the Global Influenza Hospital Surveillance Network

Melissa K Andrew, Henrique Pott, Lisa Staadegaard, John Paget, Sandra S Chaves, Justin R Ortiz, John McCauley, Joseph Bresee, Marta C Nunes, Elsa Baumeister, Sonia Mara Raboni, Heloisa I G Giamberardino, Shelly A McNeil, Doris Gomez, Tao Zhang, Philippe Vanhems, Parvaiz A Koul, Daouda Coulibaly, Nancy A Otieno, Ghassan Dbaibo, Maria Lourdes Guerrero Almeida, Victor Alberto Laguna-Torres, Anca Cristina Drăgănescu, Elena Burtseva, Anna Sominina, Daria Danilenko, Snežana Medić, Javier Diez-Domingo, Bruno Lina

National Library of Medicine – 27 May 2023

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Clinical and phylogenetic influenza dynamics for the 2019-20 season in the global influenza hospital surveillance network (GIHSN) – Pilot study

Grégory Quéromès, Emilie Froberta, Elena Burtseva, Anca Drăgănescu, Paravaiz A.Koul, Andrey Komissarov, V. Alberto Laguna-Torres, Jason Leblanc, F-Xavier López-Labrador, Snežana Medić, Alla Mironenk, Nancy A.Otieno, Guillermo M.Ruiz-Palacios, Tanriover MD, NGS team – Lyon, GIHSN collaborators, Laurence Josset, Bruno Lina.

Journal of Clinical Virology – July 2022

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The association of breastfeeding and other factors on respiratory virus positivity and severity in hospitalized children

Laura Holtman Ferreira, Breno Gonçalves da Silva, Heloísa Ihle Giamberardino, Ana Paula Pacheco, Luciane Aparecida Pereira, Gustavo Genelhoud, Ricardo Rasmussen Petterle, Sonia Mara Raboni.

Microbiology and Immunology – 15 February 2022

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Clinical and molecular epidemiology of influenza viruses from Romanian patients hospitalized during the 2019/20 season

Victor Daniel Miron, Leontina Bănică, Oana Săndules, Simona Paraschiv, Marius Surleac, Dragoş Florea, Ovidiu Vlaicu, Petre Milu, Anca Streinu-Cercel, Anuta Bilaşco, Dan Oţelea, Daniela Piţigoi, Adrian Streinu-Cercel, Anca Cristina Drăgănescu.

PLOS ONE – 12 November 2021

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Age-Specific Etiology of Severe Acute Respiratory Infections and Influenza Vaccine Effectivity in Prevention of Hospitalization in Russia, 2018–2019 Season

Anna Sominina, Daria Danilenko, Andrey Komissarov, Maria Pisareva, Tamila Musaeva, Mikhail Bakaev, Olga Afanasieva, Kirill Stolyarov, Elizaveta Smorodintseva, Elena Rozhkova, Elena Obraztsova, Elena Dondurey, Dmitry Guzhov, Veronica Timonina, Ekaterina Golovacheva, Olga Kurskaya, Alexander Shestopalov, Svetlana Smirnova, Alexander Alimov & Dmitry Lioznov.

Springer link – 28 October 2021

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Poor Vaccine Effectiveness against Influenza B-Related Severe Acute Respiratory Infection in a Temperate North Indian State (2019–2020): A Call for Further Data for Possible Vaccines with Closer Match

Hyder Mir, Inaamul Haq, Parvaiz A. Koul

Vaccines MDPI – 28 September 2021

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Negligible circulation of influenza in COVID times in Northern India

Mir H, Koul PA

Lung India 0;0:0 – 17 Jun 2021

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Hospital utilization rates for influenza and RSV: a novel approach and critical assessment

Emily K Johnson, Dillon Sylte, Sandra S Chaves, You Li, Cedric Mahe, Harish Nair, John Paget, Tayma van Pomeren, Ting Shi, Cecile Viboud, Spencer L James

Popul Health Metr – 2021 Jun 14

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Uncertain effects of the pandemic on respiratory viruses

Gabriela B. Gomez, Cedric Mahé and Sandra S. Chaves

Science – 03 June 2021

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Retrospective screening for SARS-CoV-2 among 5,800 hospitalizations related to influenza-like illness during the 2018-19 pre-pandemic and 2019-2020 pandemic influenza seasons in the VAHNSI network, Spain

Ainara Mira-Iglesias, Beatriz Mengual-Chuliá, Laura Cano, Javier García-Rubio, Miguel Tortajada-Girbés, Mario Carballido-Fernández, Juan Mollar-Maseres, Germán Schwarz-Chavarri, Sandra García-Esteban, Joan Puig-Barberà, Javier Díez-Domingo, F. Xavier López-Labrador, for the Valencia Hospital Network for the Study of Influenza and Respiratory Viruses Disease.

medRxiv – 24 May 2021

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National burden estimates of hospitalisations for acute lower respiratory infections due to respiratory syncytial virus in young children in 2019 among 58 countries: a modelling study

You Li, Emily K Johnson, Ting Shi, Harry Campbell, Sandra S Chaves, Catherine Commaille-Chapus, Izzie Dighero, Spencer L James, Cédric Mahé, Yujing Ooi, John Paget, Tayma van Pomeren, Cécile Viboud, Harish Nair

Lancet Respir Med – 2021 Feb

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Genetic variability of the neuraminidase gene of influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 viruses circulating from the 2012/2013 to 2017/2018 season in Vojvodina Province, Serbia

Jelena Radovanov, Mioljub Ristic, Snezana Medic, Gordana Kovacevic, Nela Dopud, Natasa Nikolic, Aleksandra Patic, Ivana Hrnjakovic Cvjetkovic, Vladimir Petrovic.

Pubmed – August 2020

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Complicated hospitalization due to influenza: results from the Global Hospital Influenza Network for the 2017–2018 season

Bruno Lina, Alexandre Georges, Elena Burtseva, Marta C. Nunes, Melissa K. Andrew, Shelly A. McNeil, Guillermo M. Ruiz-Palacios, Luzhao Feng, Jan Kyncl, Philippe Vanhems, Justin R. Ortiz, John Paget, Robert C. Reiner and on behalf of the GIHSN 2017–2018 study collaborators

BMC Infectious Diseases – 02 July 2020

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Influenza epidemiology and influenza vaccine effectiveness during the 2016–2017 season in the Global Influenza Hospital Surveillance Network (GIHSN)

Víctor Baselga-Moreno, Svetlana Trushakova, Shelly McNeil, Anna Sominina, Marta C. Nunes, Anca Draganescu, Serhat Una, Parvaiz Koul, Jan Kyncl, Tao Zhang, Ainagul Kuatbayeva, Afif Ben-Salah, Elena Burtseva, Joan Puig-Barberà, Javier Díez-Domingo and for the Global Influenza Hospital Surveillance Network (GIHSN)

BMC Public Health – 02 May 2019

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Global Influenza Hospital-based Surveillance Network (GIHSN): results of surveillance of influenza and other respiratory viruses in hospitalised patients in Brazil, 2015

Sonia M Raboni, Fernanda EA Moura, Braulia C Caetano, Valéria M Avanzi, Luciane A Pereira, Meri B Nogueira, Luine R Vidal, Isabel CF Tavares, Florence K Pradel, Valentina S Picot, Joan Puig-Barbera, Marilda M Siqueira

BMJ Open, 8 December 2017

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Genetic characterization of influenza viruses from influenza-related hospital admissions (St. Petersburg & Valencia) of the Global Influenza Hospital Surveillance Network during 13/14 influenza season

F. Xavier López-Labrador, Angels Natividad-Sanchoa, Maria Pisareva, Andrey Komissarov, Karina Salvatierraa, Artem Fadeev, Andrés Moya, Mikhail Grudinind, Javier Díez-Domingoa, Olga Afanasieva, Nadezhda Konovalova, Anna Sominina, Joan Puig-Barber

Journal of Clinical Virology, 19 September 2016

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Influenza epidemiology and influenza vaccine effectiveness during the 2014–2015 season: annual report from the Global Influenza Hospital Surveillance Network.

Joan Puig-Barber, Elena Burtseva, Hongjie Yu, Benjamin J. Cowling, Selim Badur, Jan Kyncl, Anna Sominina and on behalf of the GIHSN

BMC Public Health – 19-20 October 2015

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Epidemiology of Hospital Admissions with Influenza during the 2013/2014 Northern Hemisphere Influenza Season: Results from the Global Influenza Hospital Surveillance Network.

Joan Puig-Barberà, Angels Natividad-Sancho, Svetlana Trushakova, Anna Sominina, Maria Pisareva, Meral A. Ciblak, Selim Badur, Hongjie Yu, Benjamin J. Cowling, Clotilde El Guerche-Séblain, Ainara Mira-Iglesias, Lidiya Kisteneva, Kirill Stolyarov, Kubra Yurtcu, Luzhao Feng, Xavier López-Labrador, Elena Burtseva, Global Influenza Hospital Surveillance Study Group (GIHSN)

PLoS ONE, 19 May 2016

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Influenza vaccine effectiveness in preventing hospitalization among Beijing residents in China, 2013–15.

Ying Qina, Yi Zhang, Peng Wu, Shuo Feng, Jiandong Zheng, Peng Yang, Yang Pan, Quanyi Wang, Luzhao Feng, Xinghuo Pang, Joan Puig-Barberà, Hongjie Yua, Benjamin J. Cowling

Elsevier – Vaccine, 18 March 2016

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Peculiarities of etiology of respiratory virus infections in hospitalized patients depending on the demographic, socio-economic factors and previous vaccination (article in Russian).

Anna Sominina, Site of Saint Petersburg

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The Global Influenza Hospital Surveillance Network (GIHSN): A new platform to describe the epidemiology of severe influenza.

Puig-Barberà J, Tormos A, Trushakova S, Sominina A, Pisareva M, Ciblak MA, Badur S, Yu H, Cowling BJ, Burtseva E

GIHSN Group Influenza Other Respir Viruses, 21 July 2015

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Effectiveness of influenza vaccination programme in preventing hospital admissions, Valencia, 2014/15 early results.

Puig-Barberà J, Mira-Iglesias A, Tortajada-Girbés M, López-Labrador FX, Belenguer-Varea A, Carballido-Fernández M, Carbonell-Franco E, Carratalá-Munuera C, Limón-Ramírez R, Mollar-Maseres J, del Carmen Otero-Reigada M, Schwarz-Chavarri G, Tuells J, Gil-Guillén V, for the Valencia Hospital Network for the Study of Influenza and Respiratory Viruses Disease

Euro Surveillance, 26 February 2015

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First-year results of the Global Influenza Hospital Surveillance Network: 2012–2013 Northern hemisphere influenza season.

J Puig-Barberà, A Tormos, A Sominina, E. Burtseva, PO Launay, M Ciblak, A Natividad Sancho, A Buigues Vila, S Martínez-Úbeda, C Mahé on behalf of The GIHSN Group

BMC Public Health, 5 June 2014

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2012-2013 Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness against Influenza Hospitalizations: Results from the Global Influenza Hospital Surveillance Network.

Joan Puig-Barberà, Angels Natividad-Sancho, Odile Launay, Elena Burtseva, Meral A. Ciblak, Anita Tormos, Amparo Buigues-Vila, Sergio Martínez-Úbeda, Anna Sominina, the GIHSN Group

PLoS ONE, 19 June 2014

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