INFLUNET: Sistema di Sorveglianza Sentinella delle Sindromi Influenzali in Italia. Rapporto Influenzale 2010-2011. (INFLUENT: A Sentinel Surveillance Network for Influenza Like Illness in Italy. Report for the Season 2010-2011).

摘要

The sentinel network is a valuable tool for describing the epidemiology of influenza in Italy. In addition, it provides information for defining the baseline in order to allow comparison in the future. Beginning from the flu season (2000-2001), sentinel surveillance has become an institutional activity. It is carried out through collaboration of different parties: Regions, Istituto Superiore di Sanita (ISS, the National Institute of Health in Italy), Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca sullInfluenza (CIRI, the Inter-University Research Centre on Influenza), reference Laboratories, general practitioners and paediatricians and all under the support of the Ministry of Health. In this report results of the epidemiological surveillance for the season 2010-2011 are presented and compared with those of the previous seasons.