| annual report of the national influenza surveillance scheme, 2007. | the year 2007 saw the most severe influenza season since national reporting of influenza began in 2001. early in the season the national incident room was activated to provide effective national surveillance, reporting and management of the 2007 seasonal influenza outbreak. a surveillance team were tasked with establishing enhanced surveillance for the 2007 season and investigating unusual events in this outbreak. key data required to comprehensively describe the number of cases, morbidity, mort ... | 2008 | 18767420 |
| comparison of the incidence of influenza in relation to climate factors during 2000-2007 in five countries. | relatively few international comparisons of the incidence of influenza related to climate parameters have been performed, particularly in the eastern hemisphere. in this study, the incidence of influenza and climate data such as temperature, relative humidity, and rainfall, from cities at different latitudes with contrasting climates: singapore, hong kong (china), ulaanbaatar (mongolia), vancouver (canada), and three australian cities (brisbane, melbourne and sydney) were examined to determine w ... | 2010 | 20872724 |
| rates of neutropenia in adults with influenza a or b: a retrospective analysis of hospitalised patients in south east queensland during 2015. | neutropenia in adult patients is often attributed to intercurrent viral infections; however, there are limited data describing the frequency or natural history of this phenomenon. we examined all patients presenting to three large hospitals in the metro south region of south east queensland with laboratory-confirmed influenza a or b throughout the 2015 influenza season (january-october). four hundred and thirty-six patients were studied and 15.3% of this cohort were neutropenic (absolute neutrop ... | 2016 | 27813353 |